@OTOY Octane 2026 also provides access to Gaussian Splat AOVs These AOVs break out the splat asset directly from your 3D scene - which can be great for compositing, but also just look really cool solo'd independent from the shading and background while still retaining the tint recoloring.

This is goooooood!!!!!

A few months ago I finished a pretty cool tool I was working on for C4D. It's called SplatFlow and essentially it's a bridge between gaussian splats and both C4D and X-Particles for splat advection.. It's simple and I even added a skip nth feature to allow for large splats to skip to a lower point count (points to particles are 1-1) this allows for a less dense particle sim and then pushes all advection and velocity back to the full splat using some developed algorithms. Taking a 3DGS and using it as a particle source offers some really interesting and unique aesthetic that you can only achieve from a splat asset.

LOVE IT!

NBA Finals are stirring up, NY up 2-1 going into game 4. Who you taking? Built with @insydium_ltd X-Particles @rendernetwork Spurs or Knicks - creators always win with Render Network!

Trying out @DanyBittel Fruit gaussian splats for the first time with @OTOY Octane 2026, pretty remarkable the level of detail in these. If you're looking for the highest fidelity berries on the market - look no further! 🔥🔥🔥

Grab some splats!

Introducing CozyBlanket Pro A next-generation mesh optimization and cleanup toolkit, built from the ground up with AI-assisted retopology, cutting-edge UV tools, and powerful tool system to transform complex geometry into clean, efficient, production-ready assets.

The new @tripoai TripoSplat on the right (image to splat model), and then my custom image2splat on the left. Mine is 30 min ea for more of a hero asset look, custom splat count, custom baked lighting, full spherical harmonics.. Tripo is actually quite fast, no harmonics, and fairly blurry texture with some stronger hallucinations on geo.. Can be a really nice tool for background scene dressings and if you're using something like DLSS5 in the future maybe it's perfectly poised to enhance, BUT if you don't mind 30 min and have a 5090 my Image2Splat is pretty awesome!

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I don’t use blender much, but this is awesome and I have to try it out for myself!

Are you NOT building with LLMs? If not then why - it’s the biggest cheat code I’ve seen since getting into the industry nearly 20 years ago - and if so, what have you been building?

At @aionthelot panel with @premakkaraju (@StabilityAI) @taiuti (@reactorworld) and @Da_VFX_Chick (@promise_ai) @JulesUrbach shares how to combine the power of world models with the control of 3D pipelines - featuring showcases from @rendernetwork RenderCon.

I am cooking.

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Apple released a new 3D model called LiTo recently and it's FAST. On my 5090 I can get splat or 3D outputs in a little over 30 seconds from a single image. BUT, speed isn't always the goal.. If you watch, you'll see my custom Image2Splat workflow using the latest Pixal3D process that does require training a splat (5-6 min) and the total A-Z time is roughly 30 min per BUT the results are night and day.

Super Splat Octane make working with splats so nice - you can run local edits and CC splats directly inside Super Splat and then push your results into @OTOY Octane for a highly cinematic appeal full relighting. Now with my new Pixal3D - Image 2 Splat pipeline, I have hundreds of new 3DGS assets. Who wants a bunch of splats to mess around with!!??

Synthetic splat training from a single image using the new Pixal3D Trellis 2 backbone.. 9.4m polygons wrapped up into a 9mb splat asset.. over 200 image to splat assets made over the weekend, now just training a few data sets to see how they look

Didn’t notice in real-time but game on the line Wemby out of the play on one end hustles back beating 4 other OKC players down the floor diving for a loose ball and helping to gain a pivotal possession to help secure the W. This level of hustle is lead by example and I love it!

This Spurs Thunder series is going to be interesting!

This is what weeks of quiet R&D looks like. Testing Paradigm vs. FLIP side by side, refining foam and viscosity workflows, and laying the groundwork for AI-assisted simulation pipelines built on my own data. Still finessing. But the foundation is solid. #Houdini #FXResearch #FluidSim #Paradigm #VFX #KeylanaStudios #HoudiniVFX #MotionDesign