Well I say nicer, because there are allot of toys to play with.
I think rigging is the part where you need a non destructive procedural
work flow the most.
In Maya it feels like you have to make damn sure you are done with step
A before moving onto step B.
Houdini is flexible to the point where you become reckless with your
work flow :)
Bit more complex when you get started, but worth it.
The auto rig at the very least doesn't break like the soft one used to
in 2011 :)
G
On 16/01/2015 14:08, Mirko Jankovic wrote:
Riggin nicer then Soft?
Will have to check it out then.. In maya rigging and enveloping is
huge crap and biggest reason that I don't wanna ago back int othat
hell at first place.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Gerbrand Nel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
After trying to learn maya for about 6 months, learning houdini is
a breath of fresh air!!
It is not softimage, but I think its the only thing that will come
close to the flexibility and power of soft for small studios and
freelancers.
Once you get into it, It is even more power.
I tried learning it about 2 years ago, and gave up because I
thought my time would be better spent getting better in soft (the
future was still bright back then)
Back then it seemed complicated, but after dealing with maya, it
feels sooo much friendlier.
The way I see it, you get the operator stack, and ice tree, all in
one place, the network view
So its one thing to learn.
In Maya I feel like I have to learn new software every time I do
something else.
Rigging I found nicer than soft, and the animation editor in
houdini feels like a polished version of the soft one.
Houdini engine is still blowing my mind.. like it doesn't stop!!
At $300 you cannot ignore this as a piece of your pipeline!
I'll probably do allot of work in maya because I need to fit into
teams of Mayans, but with the houdini engine, I can do the work in
the software best suited for it, without forcing the rest of the
team to conform.
G
On 16/01/2015 12:08, Mirko Jankovic wrote:
modeling and character riga nd animation wise it is I assume
sitill nt as suser friendly as SI right?
how us ievrall generalist and smalls tudio experience?
SI is more or less out of the box great steramlined solution..
