Rise & Fall - Siege Animation (with detailed Breakdown) By Bart on April 9, 2025 Video Maarten Nauta used a combination of Blender, Gaea, SpeedTree and Houdini for this short video.The Rise and Fall of a mighty castle. A fun personal project with the main goal of learning a bunch of new skills. I learned a lot about Houdini Pyro and RB FX. I got lots of practice in SpeedTree and Gaea. And ofcourse upped my game in Blender and GeoScatter.Hope you enjoy.Maarten is a Dutch 3D environment artist and Blender enthusiast. He is known for creating detailed and immersive environments using Blender, often inspired by real-world landscapes and other artists.One of his notable projects is "God's Valley", a large-scale mountain castle environment. This project was inspired by Lorenzo Lanfranconi's works and the Alps. Here too, Maarten used a variety of tools, including Blender, Gaea, Megascans, Quixel Bridge, SpeedTree, and The Grove 3D, to create this scene:Links