Transitioned to C4D and Houdini. Mostly using C4D, surprisingly.
The amount of control is amazing, with really easy ways to do certain things that would be much harder in Softimage. The curves are better, with excellent control of booleans (even curve booleans!). The dynamics are really surprising, too. You can easily animate a bunch of instances along a path, and also have them collide with each other at the same time. Nearly EVERYTHING is drag and drop-able. The shaders are very nice, but I miss nodal shading. I really think of all the packages out there, C4D is the closest to Softimage that I have seen so far. It makes me sad that I have to move to another package, but every cloud has a silver lining, and the silver lining is that many things I do more often than not are much easier now. When they are difficult, then I can use Houdini. Not perfect, but overall, being out of the grasp of Autodesk feels great no matter what. On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:54 AM, David Saber <davidsa...@sfr.fr> wrote: > I have not digged enough into Houdini yet but so far I'm blown by the > operator stack equivalent: much more powerful! > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> -25 Years Experience -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
