Houdini: 3D compositing, animation, and special effects software for Linux

Houdini VFX, knows this professional graphics software in its version for Linux.

Houdini Linux Ubuntu

Hollywood leaning on the shoulders of Linux

Many people still comment that popular video editing and effects compositing software such as Sony Vegas, Premiere and After Effects have no Linux version. Here's a tip, if you need a program for editing, consider taking a look at the Kdenlive and in Lightworks, In this second also professionally used, the movie "The Wolf of Wallstreet" was edited with him for example. Interestingly, if some popular Adobe software isn't available for Linux, the industry's hardest colors are, like Nuke – learn more here – Fusion and DaVinci Resolve, for people who want a powerful composer like Nuke, just for free, it's worth a look at Natron, we talk about him here, and we can't forget from Blender too.

Houdini – 3D Animation Tools

Houdini can be used as a composer, animation program, and more, but it has a big highlight in 3D animations and special effects, Pixar itself, who released his renderman for Linux use it in some productions.

Check out an example of Houdini's potential:

Houdini Demo Reel 2015 from Go Procedural on Vimeo.

Who would say huh? Much of the movies you watch were made using Linux, another reason to value systems based on it.

Houdini Download

Houdini is a paid software and its full license can be very salty, about $ 5,000, but it also has a free license for apprentices, just make this selection when installing.

Houdini Download

Once chosen simply download, the downloaded file is about 1 GB in size.

Installation Tips

The installation of Houdini on Linux is a bit complicated, you should extract the contents of the file you download, inside it there will be a file called houdini.install As responsible for the installation, it must be run by the terminal with administrator permissions.

Houdini Linux

Navigate to the folder you extracted and run the command:

sudo ./houdini.install

Follow the on-screen instructions and after installing restart the computer, otherwise the software will give an error at the time of opening, be sure to check the option for commercial use to be able to use the program without paying anything.

Houdini Ubuntu Linux

Now you can make the new Star Wars! See you next time!

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