I'm asking this question for curiosity, does anyone use Houdini as their main software instead of something else like Maya, Blender etc. ? And what is your opinion about it ? I'm especially interested in the modeling aspect of it and to hear your opinion about the new direct modeling tools ( the radial menu stuff ) and…
The overwhelming answer to this is going to be no. Houdini is extremely expensive for studios and offers no benefits over max or maya in terms of modeling for 99.9% of 3d artists. Sure, you'll get the occasional freelancer or someone from a particularly unusual studio pop up and say they use it exclusively for building…