Rendering the Inferno at RiseFX: The Lost Bus
128 shots, 15 sequences, and GPUs on the brink: RISE FX’s Oliver Schulz explains how his team built the burning world of The Lost Bus.
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Trees in Autumn: SpeedTree Controller 3.0 Falls for Houdini 21
SpeedTree Controller 3.0 lets Houdini artists break, regrow and shade trees with Karma: new features, same procedural roots
Pixar beamed up: RenderMan Art Challenge 2025 goes alien
Pixar’s RenderMan Art Challenge 2025 goes extraterrestrial. Theme: Aliens. Deadline: 10 November. Tools: RenderMan only. Prizes: galactic.
SpeedTree 10 : Workflow and Performance
SpeedTree 10 is out, offering a streamlined workflow, improved integration with major platforms, and faster processing for 3D vegetation creation.
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.
Tree generator with Blender 3.2
The Twitter community is amazed: Bagattini Antoine, architecture aficionado and Blender enthusiast, plants trees in the viewport.
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!
SpeedTree 9 | Release
Change trees: The latest version of the vegetation software is particularly popular with photogrammetry professionals.
Vizplants | Vegetation Assets
"Grass grows over it": Plant your environments with high-quality 3D assets!
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.
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.
SpeedTree 2020 VFX Reel Showcases Digital Flora
SpeedTree’s 2020 reel collects film highlights featuring digitally generated jungles, forests and other vegetation.
Free Scanned Leaf Textures for treesDesigner
A free nine-species PBR leaf pack supplied colour, subsurface, displacement, roughness and two normal-map variants for vegetation work.
SpeedTree Cinema 8
The multiple award-winning software for virtual vegetation SpeedTree receives its first update! It promises more realistic trees and plants in less time and with less modelling effort.
ORCA: The Open 3D Asset Library
New open asset library: With ORCA, Nvidia, Amazon Lumberyard and SpeedTree provide high-quality 3D assets. Further donations are welcome.
SpeedTree Receives Engineering Emmy
After already receiving two awards for its vegetation software SpeedTree, Interactive Data Visualization crowns its successful year 2015 with the Engineering Emmy.
Winners of the Sci-Tech Oscars
It is now known which prizewinners will receive their Technical Oscar awards from the "Scientific and Technical Awards Committee" on February 7.
SpeedTree V6 Creates Vegetation with Houdini
The SpeedTree V6 vegetation generator for films, which was used for Avatar in 2009, can now be used as a plugin together with the new Houdini 12, thus offering many new possibilities.
SIGGRAPH 2009: ILM Licenses SpeedTree Cinema
At SIGGRAPH, software developer IDV won effects studio Industrial Light & Magic as a user of its SpeedTree Cinema vegetation generator.
Digimation Releases SpeedTree 3
Digimation's SpeedTree tree generator is now available in version 3, with improved wind control and expanded MaxScript support.
Digimation Ships SpeedTree 2.0
New version supports palm trees, smaller polygon counts and better foresting