Francois - I setup a Houdini Mantra rendering pipeline at Sunrise in Cape Town, must say Mantra is not quite Arnold, but it is still a very good renderer! Also Houdini is a pipeline TDs wet dream! I did want to get Arnold in there, but Budget in South Africa is all too often a problem.
S. On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Francois Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andy. > > Did you move to Mantra, or stayed with Arnold? > > Softimage crashing too often in lookdev is the #1 reason why I'm actively > looking elsewhere. > > > On 19-Aug-15 10:35, Andy Goehler wrote: > >> We at Fiftyeight moved on from Softimage to Houdini for scene assembly >> and rendering. While Houdini’s offerings may not be the designed/perfect >> pass system currently, we’ve managed to adjust to a level of comfort. >> Shading and lighting productivity has gone way up. Houdini has proven to be >> very stable during shading and lighting, contrary to my frustration with >> Soft crashing unacceptably often. >> >> We were not looking for the best solution currently available either, we >> were looking for a platform to build upon. And are very happy with Side >> Effects as a software vendor. Licensing, Bugs reports and fixes, feature >> requests and implementation and daily builds make us a satisfied customer. >> >> Andy >> > >
