Local LLM hardware for Python development + Blender/Houdini via MCP?

Hey everyone! I’m a VFX artist looking for a local LLM setup mainly for Python development and connecting to Blender and Houdini through MCP to help create scenes and tools. This would be for interactive coding and agent workflows, not model training.

I’m considering 2× NVIDIA DGX Spark or an Apple M5 Ultra with 256GB unified memory, but I’m open to other recommendations.

For this use case, which setup would offer the best balance of model quality, context capacity, and responsiveness?

Would love to hear from anyone running similar workflows! Thankss!