Based on our record, Houdini should be more popular than Art of Illusion. 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.
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
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
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
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
Art of Illusion: A free graphical general purpose modeller and renderer. I haven't tested this one thoroughly but it seems easy to use. Example scene. Source: over 2 years ago
I played around in Art of Illusion, it has quite sophisticated features and the help system/documentation was useful for getting started: http://artofillusion.org/ Bryce 3D is another tool that comes to mind with a UI that is easy to grasp, but more for generating awesome raytraced landscapes and floating mirror cubes :). - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
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