We recreated a Fast & Furious scene with my friends.

https://redd.it/1s71pvn
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Text to 3D tools in production pipelines, is anyone actually using these

Genuine question for other artists and tech people. Has anyone integrated AI 3D generation into a real production pipeline? Not personal experiments but something that actually ships.

I've been evaluating tools for our studio, 15 person team working on a stylized action project. Art team is overloaded and we need to speed up environment asset production without hiring.

Tested Meshy, Tripo, and a couple others over the past few weeks. Generated about 50 test assets across all tools.

Raw output is usable for distant LODs and background clutter but not production ready for anything mid distance or closer. Topology is universally bad across all tools, every model needs retopo. Meshy had the most consistent PBR textures, workable base after a material pass. Style consistency is the biggest unsolved problem though, outputs vary even with identical prompts.

We built a Houdini script to auto retopo and it helps but adds pipeline complexity.

My current take is AI generation works as a "first draft" tool that replaces the initial blockout phase. It does not replace the modeling team. Just shifts their work from creation to refinement.

Estimated time savings if we integrate properly: maybe 20-30% on environment props specifically. Characters and hero assets are still fully manual.

https://redd.it/1s70ugc
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3D Gaussian splat, in vfx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8yRlA7jqEQ

https://redd.it/1s7063u
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Houdini make particles simulation effect

https://redd.it/1s7jcha
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hey I'm a high school 18 , interested in 3d animation, cgi , and vfx im thinking about going to college soon but im not sure which degree fits all of them or individually and I dont want to make mistakes and I want to find the right degree for each of them. Also im trying to learn blender atm.



https://redd.it/1s7iy8u
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Hello everyone, I’m excited to show you my vfx breakdown before neural networks can do everything I’ve learned.

https://redd.it/1s7ns7k
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Update: Fixed the 3D smoke based on your suggestions. Is this hitting 100% realism yet?

https://redd.it/1s7v2bo
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Updated the 3D smoke based on your suggestions. Is this giving 100% realism yet?

https://redd.it/1s833n9
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Are there any self-taught VFX artists who never earned an art degree nor went to an art school?

Hello. I'm an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing. I've been interested in animation and VFX for more than a decade and I just started teaching myself software such as Blender and Nuke and I want to work independently to gain experience as a VFX artist and filmmaker or intern at a VFX studio or animation studio like ILM, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Pixar, or Walt Disney Animation Studios.

So, which leads me to this question as the title says. What are some examples of a self-taught VFX artist who has never earned a degree in the related field nor went to an art college/university?

https://redd.it/1s84mza
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VFX and props tour destinations

I'm looking for some art installations to plan a vacation around. I'm looking for something like a studio tour where they make heavy usage of 3D CAD to create sets, props and figures. I'm more interested in sets that have some amount of animatronics involved. Bonus points if the genre leans towards steam punk.

We've already been to Weta workshop and Hobbiton - this was exactly the type of tour I'm looking for. I looked into doing something like Industrial Light and Magic, but it looks like that's an insiders tour only. I also looked into the backstage tours at Disney, but I can't find any recent information on this tour. I had some interest in the Warner Brothers tour in Tokyo, combining with the Studio Ghibli museum.

For more context, I'd prefer something that shows off art done in a career-based, professional or movie making capacity as my kid has an interest. Though we're definitely up for a well done museum in addition to a VFX studio tour.

https://redd.it/1s86mtx
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VFX breakdown with Matthew Aina

https://redd.it/1s860vl
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Making-of: 4DGS inside a real theme park attraction – from capture to real-time playback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7CGItWd10

https://redd.it/1s8fbp8
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I built a free animation reference library with 900+ clips — tag search, AI tagging, frame-by-frame playback

Hey everyone,

The problem with game animation reference isn't that it doesn't exist — it's that it's buried in 10-minute gameplay videos and completely unsearchable. You can't type "exhausted walk" into YouTube and get a clean 3-second loop of exactly that. So I built something that lets you do exactly that.

It's called Reflix.dev. Right now there's about 900+ clips — combat, movement, cinematics, VFX, idle animations, all tagged and categorized. The first target is 10,000+ clips and the data is already there, just going through a verification pipeline. Realistically hitting that within a month. New clips go up every day. You can search by tags like "sword slash" or "two-handed swing," and there's an AI search so you can type stuff like "dramatic slow motion" or "fast combo attack" and get relevant results back.

The player is probably the thing that'll sell you on it — you can scrub through any clip frame by frame and loop just the section you care about. Way easier than downloading a clip and opening it in AE just to study one motion.

Most of the clips are from Korean and Japanese games right now — RPGs, action games, fighting games. Those studios put insane effort into their animation work and it's genuinely great reference material.

I'd love to hear what you think, especially if you work with game animations daily. What kind of reference do you always struggle to find? And what would a tool like this actually need to be useful in your workflow?

https://redd.it/1s8ewa6
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[Repost] Hello everyone, I'm excited to show you my vfx breakdown before neural networks can do everything I've learned.

https://redd.it/1s8ks52
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How is the VFX department structured on a film set?

Hi everyone, I’m trying to understand how the VFX team is usually organized during the shooting phase of a film.

What does the hierarchy of the on-set VFX department typically look like? How is the team structured (vfx supervisor, vfx producer, etc), and how do the different positions relate to each other on set? Which are the leading roles and the entry level positions?

I’m only interested in the on-set roles (not post-production, studio roles).

https://redd.it/1s8kyyn
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