Houdini FX combines superior performance and dramatic, ease-of-use to deliver a powerful and accessible 3D experience to VFX artists creating feature films, commercials or video games. With its procedural node-based workflow, Houdini lets you create more content faster to reduce timelines and enjoy enhanced flexibility in all your creative tasks.
Houdini is perfect for Visual Effects artists and technical directors with its particle and dynamics environment. Houdini FX includes a complete toolset for studios that want to use it for other tasks such as lighting, animation or procedural modeling.

System Requirements

Mac OS X: Requires 64-bit Intel-based Mac with OSX 10.10.2 and higher

Linux:
Ubuntu 12.04+ (64-bit)
Debian 7.0+ (64-bit)
RHEL 6+ (64-bit)
Fedora 13+ (64-bit)
Open SUSE 12.1+ (64-bit)
CentOS 6+ (64-bit)
Mint 13+ (64-bit)

gcc 4.8 is strongly recommended.

Note: 32-bit Linux is no longer supported