Gaea puts cutting-edge terrain design in everyone’s hands—from passionate hobbyists to the world’s top studios.
Gaea has become our top choice for landscape creation.
Paul Jenness
Whether we are creating an epic vista or detailing close terrain, Gaea has helped us to build, texture, and dress our natural environments.
Model Supervisor for Environments
Wētā FX
The bleeding edge.
Since 2014, QuadSpinner's geological technology has remained at the forefront of terrain design. Gaea 2 continues this legacy with its erosion simulations.
Even when creating art-directed, bespoke erosive terrains, you will still find the signature of realistic deposit movements, shape downcutting, and other physical attributes that make any erosion output look brilliantly detailed. Our powerful physics engine ensures that the simulation gives you a believable, realistic outcome while allowing you to bed reality just a little bit to inject your own artistic vision.
Gaea powers the biggest titles in VFX and Games.
When it comes to serious environments, Gaea is the industry choice. Gaea allows artists to follow their imagination while retaining the procedural imperative.
Gaea's workflow scales to any need - solo artist or powerhouse team - delivering the same level of quality over the entire toolset.
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Procedural Worlds
Build anything. You are limited only by your imagination (and a bit of RAM).
Learn MorePreserve Shapes
Focus on your results, not the process, with powerful volume-preserving technology.
Learn More"I've been making 3D terrains since the 90's. In my experience, Gaea represents the current next-gen tool that is ahead of its time."
Alex Alvarez
Founder/President - Gnomon
Beyond Soil
Go beyond basic hydraulic erosion by harnessing rock simulations, sandstone breakage, and more.
Learn More2.7D
Gaea's TOR engine works within the space between 2D and 3D, letting you pack higher levels of detail into a 2.5D heightfield.
Learn MoreSurface Dev
Surface nodes let you modify the character of your landscape without altering the volume of your terrain.
Learn MoreI have been using Gaea since it first came out, in productions such as Star Trek: Picard, The Dark Crystal, Shadow and Bone, and many more at DNEG, Misc, Territory, and now Light VFX.
It's a very important part of my workflow. Gaea is intuitive and fast with great Erosion nodes and a clean UI. And it's a lot of fun.
Robin Koniezcny
Head of Department, Environments
Light VFX
Large Terrains
Create massive terrains: up to 65,000,000,000 pixels.
(That's ~8000 4K screens.)
(at 1m/px, it could cover the whole of Ireland!)
Believable Worlds
Our tools are based on real physics. Even your alien worlds will look believable.
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