Train Scene
Film/TV

Tchoo tchoo! Explore this APEX-Powered KineFX Train rig! Use custom solvers to drive its animation. Bring your work to life with Karma in Solaris. Learn how to convert your assets into USD and lay them out efficiently using Point-Instancing. Polish everything up with quick compositing work using Copernicus to add extra details to your shot!

Train rig and setup brought to you by Henry Dean and Mihnea Stoica. Scene layout and compositing by Dmitrii Vlasenko.

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Asset Type
Character Rig | RIG
Published
Oct. 21, 2025
Terms of Use
Standard License
Created in
Houdini 21
Categories
Lookdev , Rigging
[407.5 MB]

CREATED BY

SideFX
SIDEFX

For over thirty five years, SideFX has been providing artists with procedural 3D animation and visual effects tools designed to create the highest-quality cinematic results. We are passionate about what our customers do because our roots are in production, both as artists and as pioneering technical innovators.

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COMMENTS

  • coccarolla 4 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Damn, that's some angry locomotive!
    ...
    I love it!

  • aparajitindia 4 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    so much to learn. thanks.

  • marcouscous_aurelius 4 months ago  | 

    thanks but man I'd like a detailed tutorial to go with this.... I opened it and understood NOTHING

  • Parag Gaikwad 2 months, 1 week ago  | 

    Great post. Im stuck inside asset_prep unable to solver issue usd_rop1. Would like to know what im missing thanks

    • dmitriiv 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

      Hello! Thanks for the comment! What exact issue do you have with usd_rop1? I can help you out.

      • Parag Gaikwad 4 days, 16 hours ago  | 

        Invalid source ./sopnet/create/foreach_end1.
        (Error: Failure to cook template geometry.).
        Im getting this Inside asset prep .
        Is there any tutorial as how you set it up the whole shot from start.
        Thanks

      • Parag Gaikwad 4 days, 11 hours ago  | 

        Hi Ihave managed to get it work. Thanks. Only thins how switch between Day and night light

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