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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

3d environment render, inspired by a John Howe illustration www.artstation.com/artwork/DvK8gn Software used: -Maya & Arnold -Speedtree -World Creator -Quixel Mixer -Nuke

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Lighting challenge for the Academy of Animated Art Character Animation by George Toombes Houdini Solaris & Karma XPU Nuke

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Latest shot I've done environment work, lighting, rendering & comp for Lupin House And breaking glass with rbd material fracture 🔨 #Houdini

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A little breakdown of a shot I worked on for Lupin House :) #Houdini #KarmaXPU #3danimation #rendering

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A #Houdini setup for reducing viewport visibility of 1000's of scattered objects, for smooth viewport performance, using 'render' and 'proxy' purpose. To remove the conflict of doubling up of purpose between asset and instances, I just pruned the corresponding purpose for the instancing part

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Here's a shot update and breakdown with new vs old lighting. I wasn't really happy the previous version, and after a lot of tweaking of lights and material/geometry setup... hopefully it's an improvement! #Houdini #karmaxpu #3danimation

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Some more lighting tweaks: - Changed the eye-ding setup to be reflected sphere lights instead of small disc geo constrained to the eyes anim. - Additional hdri reflection in the sclera. - Added a cool tone light to shape the LHS of her face - Reduced SSS on arms

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

updated lighting after some feedback

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Revisiting the lighting on this shot 🎬

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Here's a demo of layering usd files, and working with variants in Solaris. When I receive a new alembic animation cache from Maya, I can process it through this setup to ensure materials are consistent between shots, with the flexibility of variants if needed #Houdini

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Little edit of shots I've worked on lighting, rendering & comp so far for Lupin House. Hoping to make some improvements, and work on new shots in the future :) #Houdini #Solaris #Karmaxpu

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Latest shot I've complete for Lupin House! (with a little breakdown) This one took a bit longer, as there was no base environment to go by, and I wanted to get Bleu's groom setup working nicely in Solaris Animation by Ember Capistran Beede #Houdini #Karmaxpu www.lupinhouse.com

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Before and after: Testing using 'houdini hair procedural' in Solaris to add subtle cloth fibres to the trousers, and help break up the straight edge on the trouser geometry. Combined with 'houdini preview procedurals' where hairs are calculated at render time from the guide curves #Houdini #Karmaxpu

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SideFX Houdini @sidefx.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Get ready for the MARDINI Daily Art Challenge! 31 days, 31 challenges—your chance to create, compete, and win cool prizes. www.sidefx.com/community/ma... #MARDINI2025 #houdini

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Bleu shot wip for today. Next up..to setup a very subtle tree leaves animation for the background.. tried with static frame but think it's not enough. #Houdini #KarmaXPU #3danimation #3drender

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Work in progress for new shot I'm working on for Lupin House. Been focusing more on the groom setup for Bleu with a vellum sim setup on the guides, then will continue developing the environment and lighting next week :) 🐦 #Houdini #KarmaXPU #3danimation

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Lighting, rendering & comp- latest shot I've worked on for Lupin House. #Houdini #KarmaXPU #Nuke www.lupinhouse.com Animation by Anne Domning: anne-domning.squarespace.com

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Here's a vellum simulated hair test on Bleu, the sim is lightweight on the guides, and then an additional hairgen on top that follows the guide sim Animation by Ember Capistran Beede for Lupin House

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Testing 'Houdini Procedural Hair' setup in Solaris on Bleu, originally setup in Maya with xgen #Houdini

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This only works because the base usd assets (buildings from Kitbash) are not setup with a proxy/render purpose. Otherwise it would become a proxy within a proxy, and I can't get the best of both working... any ideas anyone? :)

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Experimenting with setting a proxy and render purpose on an instancer setup with 10000's of objects that slows down the viewport. Proxy version only displays a limited amount of objects to keep the viewport snappy #Houdini #Solaris

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Work in progress for my next Lupin House shot 💡🎬

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Nice! I like the interactivity with a slider. Have you tried the vex functions 'split' and 're_replace'? Split is useful for breaking up a long string into components by a character of your choice.. normally i'd use [-1] to get the last component. Re_replace for removing numbers :)

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Lua Garo ~ @somniacrawler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Now for the fantastic 3D artists I follow 🙂‍↕️🙌💖 It would be great if you could share it and give them some love if you don’t know them yet. I’ll keep updating and resharing these with time go.bsky.app/3GtnjDE

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Poor Bob! Here's final lighting & comp, and a breakdown below Really nice animation by Ting Liu for Lupin House 🤖 #Houdini #karmaxpu #3danimation

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here's a work in progress for the latest shot I'm working on for Lupin House. Step 1: Import Alembic cache Step 2: Sort though loads of nasty Maya object file paths! Step 3: Make a nicely organised Solaris stage and hierarchy Step 4: Asset materials with MaterialX Then onto lighting! #Houdini

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here's the latest shot I've done lighting, rendering & comp for Lupin House Animation. Using #Houdini and rendered with #karmaxpu www.lupinhouse.com I really love the animation on the character- done by Giada Bertano. Find more of her animated shots here: vimeo.com/giadabertano #animation

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here's a new shot I've finished using Houdini, Solaris and Karma xpu: Animation preview vs lighting + comp Animation by Keith Walheim for Lupin House: www.artstation.com/kwal/profile www.lupinhouse.com #3danimation #animation #rendering

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Victor Duarte @victorvdr9.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I’m a freelance digital artist based in Barcelona and I love creating sci-fi stuff 👽

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Soma @somartist.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Happy #portfolioday I do illustrations for fantasy covers and been working for the new Dragonlance trilogy, Warhammer, various TTRPG, Ghostfire Gaming. Also doing concept art for games. I'm most knows for my landscape work. I love painting mountains, clouds and dragons. urlich.art

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Jack Shergold @jackshergoldart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Happy 1st #PortfolioDay on this platform for me! Hello! I'm Jack, I am a 3D artist in the games industry specialising in making environments! I have a BA Hons and MSc in games artistry, I collect artbooks and do photography. Check out my website for more info & portfolio! jack-shergold.carrd.co

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Dan Marriott @dcmarriott.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

It's #PortfolioDay so here are some examples of my hard surface work. Experienced in Maya, Modo, Blender and Houdini and I'm open to opportunities. Find me at artstation.com/dcmarriott #hardsurface #blender #maya #modo #3dmodeling

3d render of a briefcase computer from 2001:A Space Odyssey publicity photos

3d render of the Morgan EV3 electric vehicle

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Some images for #portfolioday as it's a good way to introduce myself on what is a new platform for me. Although I'm "retired" I'm still an architectural illustrator and try to keep my hand in with sketches & drawing my home town. #drawing #pencil #sketchbook

Pencil drawing of old buildings in York with York Minster in the background. The buildings, mostly public houses, drawn from historic photographs, were mostly replaced in the 1930s.

Pen sketch, in a Moleskine sketchbook, of Bridge House in Ambleside drawn while on holiday in the Lake District.

Graphite and colour pencil drawing of Lady Row, 72 Goodramgate, York when it was used by the Little York Candle Shop (later Born of Botanics). It is now the Old York Tea Room.

Pencil drawing of old buildings on Micklegate, York.

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Edouard Noisette @ednoisette.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It's #portfolioday again! Hi! My name's Edouard, I'm a concept artist who's been working in games for more than a decade. I specialize in environment concept art, which I currently do at Crytek (Hunt Showdown). Previously worked on Assassin's Creed, Syberia and more. linktr.ee/ednoisette

Digital painting : A bird's eye view of a baroque street covered in snow, a big clock on the right side in the foreground.

Digital painting: a covered parisian passage in the middle of the day, lit by sunlight, with a few silhouettes hanging around.

Digital painting: aerial view of 9th century Baghdad, with the round city of Haroun Al Rashid in the middle. Produced for the game Assassin's Creed Mirage

Digital painting: a small sea port on a Nordic island, a dragon is flying above it. A giant structure made of whale skulls towers above the town.

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Rafael Moco @rafaelmoco.art · 14/01/2025

Hello #PortfolioDay! My name is Rafael Moco, I'm a CGi Director and VFX Supervisor at Globetrotter.studio. I'm a proceduralism addict and VFX nerd using Houdini 📬: rafaelmoco.lr@gmail.com

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hi! I'm Tom, I'm a Freelance 3d Artist. I'm working a lot with Houdini, Solaris & Karma. Here's a collection of personal shots I've worked on, I'm currently on a quest to build a character anim lighting showreel...more to come! 💼: goodliffetp.artstation.com #PortfolioDay #animation #rendering

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Little modelling test setup in #Houdini based on variations of bay window designs- referecing google street view. I used switch nodes with length thresholds of building plot widths. Thought it could be an interesting tool to populate a whole street of this style with rule based variation

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Render wips progress of hobbity scene from start to finish 🏔 #landscape #environmentart #digitalart #3drender #maya

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Slowly building up a usd library of assets using the component builder in #Houdini and #Solaris starting from individual props to creating usd sets like this. I found that the default dicing value was too much for the sofa, so lowering it reduced the initializing time to near 0, for same quality

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A breakdown of the shot from my previous post: #Houdini #karmaxpu #Solaris & comp adjustments in #Nuke

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Thanks Justin, same but I've come from a vray background- One post effect I think would be nice is a lens effect bloom & glare.. @sidefx.bsky.social 👀 i got quite used to that feature in vray and having it as a separate aov too :)

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Here's a shot I've done shaders, lighting, rendering and comp for in #houdini and #karmaxpu Character animation by the very talented Ross Green!: youtu.be/l6Fgslo7neA?... #3danimation #render

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Really cool, I could happily watch a longer version/breakdown of this!

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When you see this post a room 🏠 This one at the time I used marvelous designer to animate the curtains, and took a while to figure out the setup! #3drender #archviz

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Testing the rbd car follow path tools 🙃 www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini... #Houdini

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