I have officially decided that I will take The Houdini Path because of these two reasons:
1. I did some research, and it seems that Redshift is one of the fastest renderers (besides real time ones, of course). It takes mere seconds to remove all the noise from a render. Also, it not only uses the GPU’s memory, but also the computer’s RAM, meaning that “out of memory” errors are extremely rare. Also, Redshift has direct access to Houdini’s attributes.
2. Houdini has a Substance Plugin. With it I will be able to make all sorts of crazy effects!
For individual models, I will still use Cycles. For lighting (In Cycles) I’m torn between Pro Lighting Studio and HDR Light Studio. For compositing I will use Fusion because I just found out that Nuke costs about $10000, while Fusion is free (with $299 for bonus features). I believe that the software I have chosen are all 3rd generation software; they are the future of 3d!
