Richard DeForno

Prompt in 📥 Asset out 📤 Wonder 3D in Flow Studio transforms text into workable 3D—from props and costume assets like zombie earrings to scene elements, ready to refine in Maya or your DCC tool of choice. What should we prompt next?

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If you run into this error message in Unreal Engine 5 " Detected 1 material with missing usage flag required to work properly with cloner " then this video will help you out. #winbush #unrealengine #ue5 #dellproprecision #nvidia Unreal Engine Cindy Olivo Logan Lawler

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Creativity around games lives far beyond the screen ✨ At the Six Invitational 2026, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege cosplayers brought their favorite Operators to life. From workshops and living rooms to the event's catwalk, each costume told a story of careful design, craftsmanship, and dedication, measured in countless late-night builds and months of patience. Through our series “Passion Meets Craft,” we explore the players, professionals, and intent driving creativity around games. In this episode, these cosplayers offer a glimpse into their process: the ideas, techniques, and problem-solving behind turning pixels into reality. 👾 #RainbowSixSiege #R6S #R6Community #Cosplay #GamingCosplay #SixInvitational2026

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We’re excited to release the Dash Demo Level for Unreal Engine 5. The project contains 18 sections, each dedicated to a specific Dash tool, allowing artists and teams to explore workflows, understand outputs, and speed up world-building inside UE5. Walkthrough video and download link below 👇

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🙌 Geometry doesn't have to be your roadblock anymore! 🤫 Unlock the secrets of projections without the constraints of geometry. Download our captivating article and dive into the world of Linear Algebra for practical VFX Compositing. 🤓 Comp Lair's Founder, Pedro Andrade will guide you through his research and thinking process, demystify the hierarchy of linear transformations, and show you how to effortlessly transform PWorld Space to PObject/Pref Space, as well as how to achieve Projections in Nuke without geometry. Get your FREE copy now! ➡️ Get it here: https://lnkd.in/eVYNPwQv

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Creating AR experiences are way easier to create than you think! 🔥 My workflow: Maxon C4D → Reallusion Accurig → @MoveAI mocap → animation transfer → Control Rig → export to glTF → Artivive ✨ No coding required! Just scan a QR code and your 3D character comes alive in the real world. So many fun applications for this, think about how you can upgrade portfolio upgrades, client pitches, by taking on interactive experiences...are you gonna give this a go? #cinema4d #augmentedreality #motiongraphics #ar #3danimation #motioncapture #moveai #artivive #characteranimation #c4d #3dart #cgi

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𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼. Creative Skeletons: a procedural skeleton planning and building tool for Maya. It represents how I’m approaching skeleton creation and rig building as part of a larger, scalable rigging system. Current features: • Custom locators (cLocator) for clearer visual feedback. • Skeleton structure setup using locator relationships and aiming. • Plan orientation, the spacing, and the hierarchy before joints exist. • Programmatic joint generation based on that intent. As my asset moves into the controller rig creation and setup, it made sense to refactor the controller shape library from my Smiley Tools package into this new toolset, with a slight name change: Flexible Shapes Library -> Creative Shapes. That refactor now includes: • Controller placement directly from selected joints. • The same shape saver and reusable controller library. • Integration that can be called straight from the skeleton builder workflow. Everything is being built as one connected system. Rather than being locked into specific rig types like bipeds, this acts as a complementary system that supports building any skeleton while keeping rig design choices explicit and flexible. The code is available on GitHub for anyone curious to explore it, with the first official release now live: https://lnkd.in/gKwqwfFY Happy to chat about rigging systems, Maya tooling, or Python driven workflows. Feel free to DM me. #rigging #technicalartist #maya #python #gamedev #vfx #pipeline #tools

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Senior VFX Artist Chih-Yu Hsieh, also known as geodraws, discussed how sine waves can be used to improve your real-time VFX. Read: https://lnkd.in/e-qWh-6G #vfx #realtimevfx #gamedev #gamedevelopment #games #videogames

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Need unique liquid splatter effects? Simulate them in real-time with LiquiGen & generate variations in seconds, including render passes, 3D mesh and particle exports. This particular setup takes about 5 seconds per variant on an RTX 4090 (so hundreds could be created in less than an hour).

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How to get sculpt-level 3D assets from AI without pulling your pipeline apart. Regardless of how much ease AI has brought to production systems, there still tends to be a tad of inconsistency throughout it all ⚔️ And because of that, producers do a full rerun and break their pipelines in pieces. Tencent has removed a vital ‘excuse’ for mediocre 3D AI workflows by releasingHY 3D Studio 1.2, and it is now in public beta. PartGen 1.5 pushes component partitioning to 1536³ (up from 1024³) ♻️ → Brush based control means you can finally edit components with surgical precision. → Shape adherence is far better, so intricate models actually hold their structure. → Texture fidelity and colour accuracy are dramatically improved, and input views doubled from 4 to 8, which stabilises reconstruction. The real question is: How do you use tools like this without creating yet another isolated experiment that never becomes a system 🤔 Here is how you can implement this in a real pipeline: 1️⃣ Anchor HY 3D Studio to asset classes: Ideal teams attach tools to specific, named asset classes, such as E-commerce hero models, high value game props, or modular environment kit. For each class, define an explicit acceptance criteria: → Geometry quality threshold (where 1536³ actually matters) → Texture realism levels (what “good enough” means in your context) → Tolerance for manual clean up time per asset Then your operators know exactly when HY 3D Studio is a fit and when it is not. 2️⃣ Decouple ‘control’ from ‘craft’ in your workflow: PartGen 1.5 is control: brush based partitioning, better shape adherence, clear component boundaries. Treat that control as its own layer in your pipeline: One step is purely about structure → Use PartGen to define clean components, enforce naming, and lock how assets are segmented. Another step is about look and feel → Use the improved texture fidelity and 8 view reconstruction to match brand materials and lighting references. This is how you start moving from cool demo to reusable asset infrastructure. 3️⃣ Turn HY 3D Studio into a repeatable node in your system: this can become a powerful node inside that system if you treat it like this: Standardise multi view capture → 8 view input is only useful if your team always knows which 8 angles to feed for each asset class. Create preset profiles per use case → Partition settings, brush rules, texture expectations for “retail product”, “cinematic hero prop”, “mid distance environment piece”. Log before / after data → Asset type, time to first usable output, manual clean up minutes, issues found downstream in engine or DCC tools. Over a few projects, this builds a data spine around your 3D production: You know where HY 3D saves time, where it creates risk, and which combinations of inputs ship production ready results That is the real unlock. Your production system decides whether it becomes the competitive advantage 🔓

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Top 10 tips ((Cheat Sheet)) for USD Rendering useful for Tech Artists & Pipeline TDs Use it anywhere you need headless, automated, Hydra-based USD rendering without opening Houdini. 1. Basic Render Render a USD file using Karma (default delegate): husk scene.usd 2. Render a Frame Range husk scene.usd -f 1 100 And to point to output path: husk scene.usd -f 1 100 -o /renders/shot1/beauty.$F4.exr 3. Switch Render Delegate Render using Karma XPU: husk -R KarmaXPU scene.usd Render with Storm (fast preview): husk -R HdStorm scene.usd And you can add any Hydra delegate (Arnold, RenderMan, 3Delight if installed). 4. Override Render Settings Change a render var (AOV) directly: husk -set camera /path/to/cameraPrim Override resolution: husk scene.usd -xres 1920 -yres 1080 5. Render Specific Camera husk scene.usd -C /World/camera1 6. Add AOVs Render with ego-defined AOV (example: nrm, depth): husk scene.usd -A nrm -A depth -o /renders/aov.$AOV.$F4.exr 7. Generate a Preview Movie husk scene.usd -f 1 120 -o preview.$F4.jpg Use ffmpeg afterwards: ffmpeg -r 24 -i preview.%04d.jpg preview.mov 8. Progressive Rendering Good for quick review: husk scene.usd -progress 9. Use Husk in PDG Inside a ROP Fetch TOP or USD Render TOP: Set “Command” to: husk @usdfile@ -f @frame@ -o @output@ PDG distributes to farm automatically. 10. Debug Mode husk scene.usd --verbose or husk scene.usd --trace #Houdini3D #USD #Husk #KarmaXPU #PipelineTD #TechArt #Proceduralism #PDG #Hydra #VFXPipeline #RenderFarm #CGWorkflow #OpenToWork

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Shadow Of Melaka-Pantai Sri Berbisik-Why Placing Meshes in Unreal Engine5 Takes Time – Even Optimized Ones Even when you optimize your assets mountains at 300 tris, props averaging 100–2,000 tris placing meshes in UE5 can still feel slow. Why? Because Unreal Engine handles real-time calculations for collision, lighting, and level streaming, even for meshes that are far away and seemingly insignificant. For example, I intentionally kept some mountains low-poly because players rarely get close, but they still render beautifully in the distance. It’s all about smart optimization + understanding engine overhead, not just polygon count. setting:nanite off, no lumen, no global illumination,no ray tracing. Epic Games Unreal Engine

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Hunyuan just dropped the open-source release of HunyuanVideo-Foley, new end-to-end Text-Video-to-Audio (TV2A) framework for generating high-fidelity audio. 🔊 This tool enables creators in video production, filmmaking, and game development to generate professional-quality audio that perfectly matches both the visual flow and the intended meaning—solving major challenges in video-to-audio (V2A) generation. 🔊 Try it now: https://lnkd.in/dsaVmmev Project Page: https://lnkd.in/d4x2bNGv Code: https://lnkd.in/d9_wF8Et Technical Report: https://lnkd.in/d4C5aZip Hugging Face: https://lnkd.in/d-bQtbzC

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[𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐁𝐅 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭] I have been working on implementing RBF (Radial Basis Function) interpolation using Maya's Bifrost. While RBF is an incredibly powerful tool for things like Pose Space Deformation in rigging and interpolating scattered data points, grasping its behavior purely through mathematical formulas can be challenging. By visualizing the interpolation weights with color gradients, I was able to gain a tactile understanding of how the space is influenced by each point. This process reminded me that a procedural environment—which allows for rapid iteration—is more than just a production tool; it’s an "extension of thought" that facilitates a deeper understanding of complex algorithms. #Maya #Bifrost #TechnicalArtist #RBF #ProceduralDesign #Rigging #VFX

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It’s been a while since I posted anything, so here’s a simple tool for overriding rotation on a joint without using KineFX.

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Maya Matrix base Constraint Tool Tools Features now (WIP version) 1. Full maya matrix base constraint 2. Change controls curve color 3. Multiple Shapes controls #mayarig #mayamatrixnode #mayapython for better quality please watch - https://lnkd.in/g77WN4Hi

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Artist spotlight: We sat down with multidisciplinary 3D artist and VJ Alex Vlair to discuss his new company's blend of traditional VFX and real-time skills for advertising and events, his preference for using Notch for VJing, his experience performing at MUTEK.JP, and his background in motion graphics and 3D design. Read the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/eTuA4kG6 #madewithnotch #stoprendering #startcreating

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