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Houdini Apprentice vs LightWave 3D
LightWave 3D is a paid suite for Windows and Mac with modelling, animation, simulation and rendering, and it has no Linux version.
Houdini Apprentice vs Maya
Maya is a paid studio-standard suite for modeling, animation and effects, allowing commercial work on subscription pricing.
Houdini Apprentice vs Blender
Blender is free and open source for any purpose including commercial work, covering simulation, rendering and animation without watermarks.
Houdini Apprentice vs Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D is paid subscription software focused on motion graphics with Adobe integration, running on Windows and macOS only.
Houdini Apprentice vs Bforartists
A fork of Blender with a reworked, more discoverable graphical interface.
Houdini Apprentice vs Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk 3ds Max is paid, Windows-only software for modelling, animation and rendering, established in games and visualisation rather than procedural VFX.