SideFX Houdini Master 3D Animation 9 bir 3D animasyon ve görsel efekt programıdır. Film ve TV prodüksüyon sistemlerinde en çok tercih edilen sistemlerden bir tanesidir.

SideFX Houdini Master— the powerful program for modelling and creation of the special effects, simultaneously being a functional package 3D schedules. The program allows to make difficult shots without necessity of use of additional plug-ins or group of programmers. Film production can count on help Houdini Master in creation of tremendous video-effects and animation. Among innovations of the tenth version it is necessary to note possibility of use of the several computers united in a local network, for imitation of behaviour of the liquids, new tools Pyro FX for smoke and fire creation, technology Interactive Photorealistic Rendering (IPR) for fast viewing of changes which are brought in illumination of three-dimensional scenes, work with the three-dimensional data. Houdini Master differs presence of tools for creation of dynamics and visual effects with particles.

Features of the program:
- Fast, intellectual and flexible work
- New level of understanding
- The control over tools
- The friendly user interface
- Polygonal modelling
- NURBS modelling
- Creation of geometry of objects
- Additional tools for editing of movements
- Procedural animation and editing of movements
- Creation and editing of sounds
- Management of light and shades
- The integrated support of language Python
- And many other possibilities