cinema 4d

                                                     BEST 3D ANIMATION SOFTWARE


                                                                  1, CINEMA 4D

                                                                                                                                                                   

                                                        Developers            MAXON Computer GmbH
                                                        Initial release          1990; 27 years ago
                                                        Stable release    
                                                                                     R18 / September 1, 2016; 7 months  ago[1]                                                      Operating system        AmigaOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows
                                                           Type                  3D computer graphics
                                                         License                 Proprietary
                                                         Website               www.maxon.net

   MODULES

1 Advanced Render
2 BodyPaint 3D
3 Dynamics
4 Hair
5 MoGraph
6 NET Render
7 PyroCluster
8  Sketch & Toon
9 Thinking Particles
10 x particles
11 turbulence FD
12 realflow
13 Xpresso


                                                             2,HOUDINI FX

                                       Developers             Side Effects Software
                                      Initial release            1.0 / December 1996; 20 years ago
                                      Stable release    
                                                                      16 / February 21, 2017; 2 months ago [1]
                                    Development status             Active
                                    Operating system      Windows, macOS, Linux
                                              Type                     3D computer graphics
                                             License                     Trialware
                                            Website               www.sidefx.com

    MODULES

1  Modeling
2 Animation
3  Dynamics - Rigid Body , Fluid , Wire, Dynamics, Cloth Simulation and  Crowd simulation
4 Lighting
5  Rendering - Houdini ships , rending engine Mantra,   3rd party rendering engines such as: Renderman, Octane, Arnold, Redshift, V-ray, Maxwell    Volumetrics -  CloudFx and PyroFx ,  clouds, smoke , fire simulations.
6 Compositing