Software Alternatives & Reviews

Houdini VS AC3D

Compare Houdini VS AC3D and see what are their differences

Houdini logo Houdini

Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:

AC3D logo AC3D

AC3D is a 3D software for games, virtual reality and flight simulation, scientific, medical and general data visualisation, rapid prototypes of 3D designs, 3D printing, Google Earth, X-Plane, Second Life and more.
  • Houdini Landing page
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    2023-05-09
  • AC3D Landing page
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    2021-09-23

Houdini videos

What is Houdini Used For?

More videos:

  • Review - Top 5 Reasons To Learn Houdini Today!
  • Review - Ultra Running Vlog: Patagonia Houdini shell review

AC3D videos

AC3D - AN OLD 3D HORSE THAT WOULDN'T DIE [REVISIT]

More videos:

  • Tutorial - FlightGear Aircraft Modeling Tutorials: Ambient Occlusions in Ac3D and Blender
  • Review - Rozdzielanie elementów Ursusa 1614 Ac3d

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Houdini and AC3D)
3D
77 77%
23% 23
3D Modeling
83 83%
17% 17
Game Development
79 79%
21% 21
Digital Drawing And Painting

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Reviews

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Houdini Reviews

15 Best Maya Alternatives
3D Modeling and Rendering with Houdini isn’t very different from what you get on Maya. However, Houdini follows a node-based workflow. Every action in Houdini is a node and these nodes are linked together to form networks.

AC3D Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Houdini seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Houdini mentions (4)

  • Book or courses recomendations?
    Otherwise, Unity (3D) has tutorials for Unity, Houdini (vfx) has tutorials on their site (sidefx.com). Blender (3D) has a good community on reddit. For 2D animation the book "The Animator’s Survival Kit" is a common book people read in this reddit. Also lots of youtube tutorials. Search for whatever you want to learn ("how to paint grass in photoshop", "how to use animation in Blender", "how to animate... Source: over 1 year ago
  • Coming from Cinema4D + octane
    Houdini is (a little) hard to learn, so the best you can do is focus on one area at the same time: Modeling, Vellum, Fluids, Particles, KineFx ... You can find a lot of free tutorials on sidefx.com. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Newbie question: Which software would I use to create the interactive, animated 3D model project I have in mind?
    It sounds like you would need a lot of procedural geometry, which is done best with Houdini. But it does not do interactive web. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Unable to Start Houdini - License Server Issue?
    I also checked my license status from sidefx.com and it said everything was correct, but of course now I cant even login to the website and it just throws me a 500 Error Code when I login, asking me to login again. Ive emailed support but figured I might check here too while I'm at it. Source: about 3 years ago

AC3D mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of AC3D yet. Tracking of AC3D recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Houdini and AC3D, you can also consider the following products

Blender - Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.

VRoid Studio - Download VRoid apk 1.13.0 for Android. VRoid Mobile is an avatar camera app

Cinema 4D - Cinema 4D is a 3D modeling, animation, motion graphics and rendering application.

Bforartists - Bforartists is a fork of Blender.

Autodesk 3DS Max - 3ds Max is software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visualization. Create stunning game enrivonments, design visualizations, and virtual reality experiences.

Autodesk Maya - Maya is 3D computer animation software with powerful modeling, rendering, simulation, texturing, and animation tools for artists, modelers, and animators.