It is also used by major VFX companies such as Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Double Negative, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Method Studios, ILM, MPC, Framestore, The Mill, and others. The software is most commonly used in FX departments for the creation of visual effects in a number of scenes in film and games. The software has been used in many feature animation productions, that include Disney's feature films Fantasia 2000, Zootopia, and Frozen DNA Productions' Ant Bully, and the Blue Sky Studios film Rio. The software’s unique feature of having exclusive attention to procedural generation distinguishes it from other 3D computer graphics software.
The software was released in October 1996, and the organization adapted Houdini from the prisms suite of procedural generation software tools. HOUDINI is an animation software application that is worked on 3D and developed by SideFX, which is a company based in Toronto.
