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I work in feature film and game cinematics, where Blender is still a toy. An increasingly interesting toy since 2.80, but it'll take a killer-feature to tear a

I work in feature film and game cinematics, where Blender is still a toy. An increasingly interesting toy since 2.80, but it'll take a killer-feature to tear a studio or artist away from their tool of choice. Houdini for FX is still unmatched, Maya for character animation is still unmatched, ZBrush for sculpting is still unmatched, and so forth. As of this writing, Blender does each of those increasingly well but not as well, and certainly not well enough to warrant a transition. That said, ZBrush started as a really good hobbyist tool and grew from there. I wouldn't be surprised if Blender took a similar route.

perseusmandate 6y ago
Even if Blender can't match any of these point solutions at their respective niches, I have to imagine there would be a ton of value in a team that all mostly works in a common tool they all know well a pipeline of Maya, C4D, Modo, Nuke, Houdini, Zbrush, etc strung together. I'm just starting to learn Houdini, but with the OpenVDB support in Blender it seems like the most elegant workflow for someone without existing experience is run simulations in Houdini and then just export the volumetric data to Blender and work with it there.