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Landis Tanaka is a Seattle-based artist and creative director whose work blends Houdini simulations, motion capture, and sound into expressive, photo-surreal visuals. In this artist spotlight, Landis shares his unconventional path into digital art, breaks down standout projects like Steal Away and In the Rain, and explains how GridMarkets helps him render final shots faster—so experimentation never has to slow down.

Sam Savage’s journey into visual effects began with a childhood fascination for films, games, and imaginary worlds—and quickly evolved into a focused pursuit of crafting his own. A self-taught Houdini FX artist based in London, Sam specializes in pyro and FLIP simulations, combining technical precision with a strong sense of atmosphere and storytelling.

Eldad Sery is a technical artist and art director whose work lives at the intersection of creativity, technology, and education. From procedural tools and game-ready assets to interactive art and real-time experiences, Eldad’s career reflects a deep commitment to both craft and mentorship.

Founded in London in 2023, Axio. World is a forward-thinking VFX studio built by artists who wanted more creative freedom. From high-end advertising to cinematic visual effects, Axio. blends technical precision with a collaborative, exploratory mindset, pushing beyond traditional studio boundaries.

In addition to our administrative portal for to manage users & budgets, all users can be set up under a single storage repository in...

You can download files manually via Envoy from the Files tab (firstly please make sure you are aware of how long we keep your files in...

SideFX Houdini's Solaris toolset is designed to revolutionize the way artists work with large data sets in visual effects and animation...

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are a unique type of digital asset that are revolutionizing the way we think about ownership and value in the

The recommended way to install the Maya2GM plug-in is via Envoy's plug-in installer page . However, if you need to install the plug-in to...

Installing via Envoy The recommended way to install the GridMarkets add-on is via Envoy's plug-in installer page . If you do not see...

The recommended way to install the Maya2GM plug-in is via Envoy's plug-in installer page . However, if you need to install the plug-in to...

The recommended way to install the C4D2GM plug-in is via Envoy's plug-in installer page . However, if you need to install the plug-in to...

GridMarkets operates a "fair use" policy and generally allows up to 1TB of storage to be kept in Envoy for 15 days as long as there is...

As per our file retention policy the files were purged from the render nodes and were being re-synced from Envoy. Please note that the...

How to change Redshift log verbosity in Houdini Set "Redshift_setLogLevel" command in the Pre-Render Script section of the Redshift ROP...