3D Animation - Visual Effects
Introduction to VFX within the 3D Pipeline
What is VFX?
Visual Effects or VFX for short, covers a massive amount of content.
3D work, VFX traditionally referred to things that are fluid and don't have solid forms, such as smoke, fog, fire, or water, but now covers many effects beyond that.
It's such a large topic that there's now the software Houdini, which is primarily devoted to VFX work.
However, other generalized pipeline software ( such as Maya or Blender ) often have at least some built-in support for VFX as well.
VFX Topics
The following pages discuss the process of use of calculations and simulations to generate various visual effects.
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VFX in Software:
