Motion Design · Nov 4, 2026
Holy f*ck, Opus 5.5 just made Houdini optional
Holy f*ck, Opus 5.5 just made Houdini optional by rincy, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Motion Design video and visit the original X post.
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View on XHoly f*ck, Opus 5.5 just made Houdini optional 7 free open-source repos that cover what a $3,505/year Houdini FX license does Shatter. Collapse. Fire. Water. Cloth. Sand. Render. Every sim in this video is real, and every repo ran on the same license card Everything below costs $0: Cell Fracture → breaks any mesh into Voronoi shards Bullet → rigid-body destruction at scale Mantaflow → pyro fire, smoke and FLIP water sims OpenVDB → stores every voxel of the sim Newton → NVIDIA's GPU cloth and MPM sand Warp → the GPU kernels under Newton Cycles → the final production-grade render Save this before your next sim Feed the PDF below to Opus 5.5 and see what comes out Then read the full motion design guide in the article below ↓
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