However, in the last few versions, it has begun to make inroads into motion design. Houdini is an incredibly advanced VFX software. If you want to do VFX start learning Maya. As a motion designer, I do get some cross over into VFX but it's almost always on the compositing end.

If you want to do motion design focus on Cinema4D.

But if you like mograph I find it hard to beat C4Dįirst, pick one of those disciplines. If you find you click, great! But as you are just starting both are great but you need to ask yourself where you want to go.Īt my current job cinema 4D is not really used (I work for VFX and RnD company) but Houdini is really central. Keep going with Cinema 4D and maybe try out Houdini (they have a learners license). Now I am not sure that’s so true any more.

Years ago I would have told you stick with C4D because the learning community was stronger. The advantages of Houdini are it breaks things apart and you have control. In Houdini you have a bit more manual work to get there (no easy one click button sometimes). You can do almost everything in Houdini you can in Cinema 4D but the difference is how you do it. Houdini is a very powerful application (I have been using it for 14 years) but so is cinema 4d. Can it do everything that C4D can? Well in a sense yes.

Houdini vs cinema 4d