Simple Tree Tools 3.0 goes procedural
Simple Tree Tools 3.0 targets Houdini 20.5+ with procedural trees, scan extension nodes, and one-time licenses from free to $1,299.
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Momo: Of Time, Turtles, and Technical Wizardry
VFX Supervisor Michael Wortmann on how RiseFX built the fantasy of Momo: almost entirely on location, with 280 shots and the best turtle in the business.
Terragen 4.8 & Sky Update: Shaping Clouds and Worlds
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.8 and updates Terragen Sky, introducing GPU previews, cloud exports, and a cloud-painting tool for CGI and VFX professionals.
Stylised trees | Tutorial Tuesday
From Blender tutorial luminary "All The Works" comes a new video tutorial - about beautiful trees. A training programme for Unreal Engine 5.1 and Blender.
Rocky and stony surfaces | Tutorial Tuesday
The Lighting & Shading Artist from Pixomondo shows how beautiful visual effects can be created from terrain and rock surfaces. A video tutorial with 3ds Max and V-Ray 6.
Free December collection at Epic Games!
There's something going on in the online marketplace: these six download packages are available for free until the end of December! The assets are suitable for environment design.
Gaea 1.3.2 simplifies terrain generation?
Software developer Quad Spinner releases a new version of the terrain tool - and with it new functions such as rock noise, object-to-heightfield and supersampling screenshots.
Rocky and stony asset collection published
The Lead Matte Painter from Weta Digital offers 11 high-quality rock assets in its 3D Rock Collection!
A Medieval Town Built in Four Days
Ubisoft environment artist Mika Kuwilsky built a vertical fantasy town in four days with Maya, Blender, Substance Painter and Unreal Engine.
You’ll never guess what this fantasy castle was made of!
The freelance concept artist from Iran goes for a walk - and stumbles across something that should inspire him to create an ingenious Blender project..
City Sample Opens the Matrix Awakens City
Epic Games' City Sample exposes the UE5 city behind The Matrix Awakens, including building, vehicle and crowd packages.
Tree generator with Blender 3.2
The Twitter community is amazed: Bagattini Antoine, architecture aficionado and Blender enthusiast, plants trees in the viewport.
Create realistic grasses with Unity!
For all artists with a soft spot for the grass mat: this geometry shader for Unity's Universal Pipeline will turn your thumbs green!
Plant a jungle with Blender’s geometry node!
This motion designer on Twitter shows you how to decorate your nature environments with curved tree formations in no time at all!
Northern Island Pack for Unreal Engine
FreshCan's Northern Island Pack supplies a 16km² procedural landscape, 63 meshes, photogrammetry, vegetation, clouds, wind and fog.
Stylised Studio Apartment Workflow
Environment artist Emily Cheung explains a stylised apartment built with Maya, Substance Painter, Unity and Unreal Engine.
Download USD Island Paradise from the Disney film Moana now
South Pacific beaches are beyond your travel budget? Then take a trip to Motunui Island now with this USD download.
Project Titan Tests Houdini with UE5
SideFX's Project Titan uses Houdini procedural workflows, Unreal Engine 5 and KitBash3D assets to build a cyberpunk city.
SpeedTree 9 | Release
Change trees: The latest version of the vegetation software is particularly popular with photogrammetry professionals.
Building an Abandoned Tunnel in UE5
Environment artist Emiel Sleegers explains composition, assets, vegetation, texturing and lighting for an Unreal Engine 5 tunnel.
Procedural Grass with Megascans and UE4
Karsten Malmquist explains a Megascans-to-SpeedTree workflow, grass shaders, landscape materials and optimisation in Unreal Engine 4.
Houdini to Unreal Terrain Tutorial
A 30-minute tutorial demonstrates a terrain workflow using lidar data, Houdini and Unreal Engine for environment production.
Procedural rock | Tutorial
For dazzlers: Nanga Parbat? Zugspitze? K12? Pah! We'll build our own mountain massif!
Battlefield 4 Fan Art Recreates an Abandoned Site in Unreal Engine 4
Environment artist Gilles Devos described building a Battlefield-inspired abandoned construction site in Unreal Engine 4.
Free Rural Australia Environment Pack for Unreal Engine
Andrew Svanberg Hamilton’s Rural Australia pack supplied 85 real-time meshes derived from photography for Unreal Engine environments.
Kitchen Generator | Tool
For 3ds Max: Who will be the new kitchen king (in Environment Design)?
Project Planet Builds a Voxel World in Unreal Engine
Kevin Bikhazi demonstrates how Unreal Engine 4.26 and Voxel Plugin can be used to construct a complete spherical world.
Epic Games Releases 500 Free City Park Assets for Unreal Engine
The City Park Environment Collection offered more than 500 free Unreal Engine assets including trees, plants, buildings and paving.
Efeu-Generator | Unity
We're getting green fingers: more green branding with the ivy generator!
Instant Terra Plugin Connects Real-Time Terrain Workflows to Unreal Engine
Wysilab released early access for an Instant Terra plugin supporting Unreal Engine 4.26, 4.27 and 5 terrain workflows.
MPC Film Environment Reel Showcases Cities, Worlds and Pokémon
MPC Film’s environment reel presents urban, interstellar and densely populated digital worlds created through the studio’s VFX pipeline.
The Grove 10 Expands Procedural Tree Tools
The Grove 10 adds a redesigned interface, radial widgets, viewport branch sketching, stronger growth and wind controls, and Alembic export.
Designing a Half-Life-Inspired Environment in Blender and Eevee
Ivan Novikov explains how he created a Half-Life-inspired City 17 environment using Blender, Eevee and the Megascans library.
After Effects Public Beta Overhauls 3D Navigation
Adobe’s After Effects public beta introduced automatic scene cameras, revised orbit, pan and dolly controls, and new 3D transform gizmos.
Wysilab Receives Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra Link
Wysilab received an Epic MegaGrant to develop a live connection between Instant Terra and Unreal Engine.
After Effects Tutorial: Create Realistic Fire
Ignace Aleya demonstrates a 15-minute After Effects workflow for adding a realistic forest-fire effect to live-action footage.
Unreal Engine 4.26 Flowmaps Shape Volumetric Clouds
Technical artist Ryan Brucks demonstrates drawing density and 3D flow maps to shape volumetric clouds in Unreal Engine 4.26.
Blender Tutorial Builds a Ghibli-Style Camphor Tree
Lightning Boy Studio demonstrates a stylised camphor tree in Blender, including leaf controls, rounded forms and painted textures.
Outskirts Environment Breakdown Covers ZBrush, Substance and Lighting
Toivo Huhtaniska’s Outskirts breakdown covers modular blockout, ZBrush modelling, Substance texturing, vegetation and Unreal lighting.
Polysnow for 3ds Max: Building Procedural Snow Cover
Polysnow generated editable snow cover in 3ds Max using particle-based previews, painting, merging and baking tools.
GrowInfinite | Toolkit for Houdini
The new HDA collection brings entire green spaces to life.
Procedural Assets in Realtime Worlds
Nikolay Marinov's thesis examines procedural distribution and generation of 3D assets in realtime AAA production environments.
Village Houses Pack for Unreal
FreshCan's Village Houses pack supplied furnished interiors, vegetation, facade assets and destructible elements for Unreal Engine.
Unreal Marketplace Free Assets for July
July 2020's Unreal Marketplace selection covered environments, ArchViz interiors, PSD-to-UMG conversion, shooter code and characters.
RISE Builds Kingdoms of Fire Battles
RISE’s Kingdoms of Fire breakdown shows CG armies and horses, flags, fire, explosions and battlefield extensions across Tunisian dunes.
The Witcher – Netflix | VFX Breakdown
Toss a Coin to Framestore: In the new VFX breakdown, the studio shows its work on the new Netflix series “The Witcher”!
SIGGRAPH: E-on Software shows Vue 6 Infinite preview, introduces Ozone 3
Ozone 3 for atmospheric objects supports all major 3D modelers
