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Mantra is a production-proven renderer that comes with Houdini. This page tries to list some of the productions that have used Mantra for some rendering.

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Yeah, this page is kinda redundant now that Houdini is used on pretty much every show. The page was authored at a time when Houdini was a serious underdog. We'll just keep it around for nostalgic reasons :)

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Feature films

• IMDB:Around The World In 80 Days - ship
• IMDB:Black Hawk Down - smoke, sparks, explosions, haze
• IMDB:Flags of Our Fathers - all oceans, debris, particle effects, tracers, terrains (incl. Mount Suribachi)
• IMDB:Hollowman II - story
• IMDB:Letters From Iwo Jima - all oceans, debris, particle effects, tracers, terrains (incl. Mount Suribachi)
• IMDB:Peter Pan - oceans, fluid-simulation splashes, particles
• IMDB:Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
• IMDB:Sharkboy and Lavagirl - snow
• IMDB:Superman Returns - story
• IMDB:Star Trek X - light effects, nebulae ("the rift"), debris, scorpion craft
• IMDB:Super Ex Girlfriend - light effects, meteors & rocks, debris
• IMDB:The Brothers Grimm - mudman
• IMDB:The Day After Tomorrow - water surfaces, all ice shelf, oceans, helicopters
• IMDB:The Last Mimzy: VFXWorld Article
• IMDB:The Sum of All Fears - missiles, helicopters, Russian backfire bombers, various other explosives
• IMDB:The Time Machine - all terrains (trees, grasslands, canyons), time travel effects, the time machine itself, cars, morlock creatures incl. hair
• IMDB:Transformers - soundbyte (frenzy's head)
• IMDB:X-Men - Senator Kelly's translucent blob when he dies
• IMDB:X2: X-Men United - Nightcrawler's BAMF effect, Cyclops' beam, fireballs, snow chunks, water, debris
• IMDB:X-Men: The Last Stand - smoke rendering for Golden Gate Bridge destruction
• IMDB:Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Dust, dirt, pine needles, twigs, "Protego" spell, magic wand smoke effect in the shots with centaurs and giant, "fire particles", shock wave effect (Dumbledore's escape), some sand effects
• IMDB:The Golden Compass - smoke, god rays, snow dust effects, ice chunks
• IMDB:Wanted - Dust, smoke, debris, paper, glass, sparks for train sequence
• IMDB:Australia - Dust
• IMDB:Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Wand fx, fire, sparks, vapors, bubbling potions, sand
• IMDB:Terminator Salvation - Stormy ocean environment, molten metal, sparks, terminator hand reveal
• IMDB:Thor - Snow
• IMDB:Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Sparks,Muzzle Flash,Smoke