I can strongly recommend both. I have only had a taste of houdini but can surely attest to it, and with blender I have used extensively including python api. re

I can strongly recommend both. I have only had a taste of houdini but can surely attest to it, and with blender I have used extensively including python api. regarding ide it's pretty much notepad or blender itself, which is a major drawback but luckily it's such an amazing tool, any python operation code can be copied from the ui (which is with it art within itself)