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TheArtofSaul
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Avid Redshift Aficionado

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Patreon Tutorial #61 Parts 7-8 lands Nov 5 on Patreon! Solaris Still Life Series finale 🎉 We’re laying out the scene, managing assets, instancing, physics-based placement, rendering with Redshift & more. This series has been a blast. Thank you for all the support! 🎨
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Forgot to post these #Houdini #Redshift renders from last months Solaris Patreon tutorial. Building up the asset library for this still life project. #3d #art #digitalart #SideFX #Maxon 🎨
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This month's Patreon tutorial will be covering retopology, #RizomUV, & Adobe Substance Painter texturing for our USD Assets as part of the #Houdini Solaris Still-Life project-based series. Available Oct. 4th. 🎨🖌️✏️ www.Patreon.com/TheArtofSaul

#Redshift #MadeWithSubstance #3d
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Happy to help out again on the new #Maxon #Redshift3d 2026 feature reel. I am excited to see what the community makes with these new features. The procedural clouds are really cool. 👍

#render #redshift #cgi #mograph #motiongraphics #cinema4d #c4d #sidefx #houdini #3d
September 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Some really nice looking cumulus #clouds from r/Clouds I grabbed for future reference. I had to re-share these. Really nice sense of scale and form. ☁️
September 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Patreon Tutorial #61 continues our new project series! We will dive into Solaris & Redshift Lookdev & prep for our USD asset collection. Tutorial available September 4th! 🖌️🎨
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#Redshift3d #Maxon #SideFX #Houdini
August 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Patreon Tutorial #61 kicks off a new project series! Starting with Plasticity, an artist-friendly CAD tool. Then we will be diving into Solaris & Redshift. Tutorial drops August 4th! 🖌️🎨
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#Redshift3d #Maxon #SideFX #Houdini
July 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The Clouds Reddit page had some amazing cumulus clouds shared in the group today. I had to re-share these for artists looking for awesome reference images. 🌥️
July 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Patreon Tutorial #60 will be covering new USD Workflows. Including the new Redshift USD Procedural, USD Variants, USDZ, Solaris Layout + Asset Manager & more! Available July 4th. 🔧🪛
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#Redshift3d #Maxon #SideFX #Houdini
June 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Patreon Tutorial #59 dives deep into #Gaea v2.1 with a multi-part series exploring its latest features & updates. Parts 11–13 cover the Derive, Colorize, & Utility nodes & more! The grand finale drops June 4th.⛰️ patreon.com/theartofsaul

#Quadspinner #Houdini #Redshift3d #render
May 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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High ☁️ 20000+ ft - Cirrus, Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus – thin, wispy, ice crystals

Middle ☁️ 6,500–20000 ft - Altostratus, Altocumulus – thicker, can block sunlight

Low ☁️ 0 to 6500 ft - Stratus, Stratocumulus, Nimbostratus – gray, dense

Cumulus & Cumulonimbus span all layers - fluffy or towering.
May 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Ran into this epic cumulonimbus #cloud on #Wikimedia Commons, I had to share it... gorgeous colors and formations, an excellent reference for artists. ☁️
May 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Patreon Tutorial #59 covering in-depth #Gaea v2.1 in a multi-part series, detailing new features & changes. Surface & Simulation covered in Parts 7-10. Available March 4th - ⛰️ patreon.com/theartofsaul

#Quadspinner #Houdini #Redshift3d #render
April 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Some nice cumulus #clouds I ran into yesterday. Interesting to see how dark certain areas get.
April 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Patreon Tutorial #59 covering in-depth Gaea v2.1 in a multi-part series, detailing its new features and changes. Parts 4-6 Available April 4th - ⛰️ www.Patreon.com/theartofsaul

#Quadspinner #Houdini #Redshift3d #render
March 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Awesome #cumulus #clouds in the area recently. I got some great photos of them. Excellent references for the future. ☁️
March 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Patreon Tutorial #59 covers Gaea v2.1 in a multi-part series, detailing its new features and changes. Available March 4th - ⛰️ www.Patreon.com/theartofsaul

#Quadspinner #Houdini #Redshift3d #render
March 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Patreon #Tutorial #58 covers the new Standard Volume
anisotropy & extinction falloff features + fundamentals for clouds in #Redshift. 🌥️ www.Patreon.com/TheArtofSaul

#Maxon #Redshift3d #VDB #Volumes #SideFX #Houdini
January 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Took this #cumulus rain #cloud photo over the weekend. Excellent reference, love all the shapes and details. 🌧️
January 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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2 more experiments with the new extinction & anisotropy falloffs in the Redshift Standard Volume shader using the WDAS VDB. ☁️

#SideFX #Houdini #Cloud #render #digitalart #Maxon #3d #clouds #volumetric #shading
January 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Playing with the new extinction & anisotropy falloffs in #Redshift3d using the famous WDAS VDB. ☁️

#SideFX #Houdini #Cloud #render #digitalart #Maxon #3d
January 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Wrapping up 2024 with a couple cloud experiments. Just layering some noises. ☁️

#art #digitalart #sidefx #houdini #Maxon #Redshift3d
December 31, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Playing around with something new that’s cooking for #Maxon #Redshift3d. Glad to see this finally being built into the volume shader. Going to make cloud rendering even better. ⛅️
December 31, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Wrapping up 2024, giving my Patrons a few holiday gift assets, including HDR skies + a couple Cumulus cloud VDBs to use in their work. ☀️☁️
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#Maxon #Redshift #3d #render #SideFX #Houdini #C4D #Cinema4D #VDB #HDR #skies #sky #clouds
December 30, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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#Cloud layer blanketing the sky, interesting to see the rippling perlin / fBM like patterns breaking up and revealing the blue sky above. 🌥️
December 22, 2024 at 11:43 PM