VS 2891
Second Nature
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Fall 2025
Room 225
Tuesday 4:00 - 6:50 PM
Instructor: Breanna Browning
Office Hrs: By appointment
Email: breanna_browning@sciarc.edu
Email: studio@breannabrowning.com
VS 2891
Second Nature
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Fall 2025
Room 225
Tuesday 4:00 - 6:50 PM
Instructor: Breanna Browning
Office Hrs: By appointment
Email: breanna_browning@sciarc.edu
Email: studio@breannabrowning.com
I will continue to update and add to this page as the semester progresses. Check back for new links.
- Ed Yong – An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (intro) (2022)
- Jakob von Uexküll – A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men (1934)
- Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life (2020)
- Deleuze - The Actual and the Virtual from Dialogues(1998)
- Peter Wohlleben - The Hidden Life of Trees (2015)
- Phillipe Descola - Beyond Nature and Culture(2005)
- Donna J. Haraway - Staying with the Trouble (2016)
- Thomas Nagel - What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974)
- Blender - version 4.5.2 (newest version)
- Unreal Engine - version 5.6.1
- G Scatter - plant ground cover
- A.N.T. - terrain generation
- Cell Fracture - procedural breaking
- Piperator - make pipes on meshes
- Biome Reader - auto generate plants/landscapes
- Nebula Generator - space scenes
- Molecular - particle systems w/ interaction
- World Machine - standalone software for landscape simulations that can be imported into Blender
- ChatGPT addon - GPT plugin (we will install together later in course)
- AI Render addon - github documentation
- ChatGPT
- Anthropic Claude
- Google Gemini
- More advnaced generation OpenAI Playground
- Guide for Prompt Engineering
- Guide for Prompt Engineering from OpenAI directly
Basic Image Gen
- ChatGPT - automatically runs Dall-e + others
- Midjourney - use via Discord or WebUI (see the Midjouney prompting guide)
- Dall-e-2 (older)
- Gemini
- Meta AI
Dream Studio by Stablility.ai - Adobe Firefly - best if you have a reference photo
- UI for running Stable Diffusion
Video
- Runway.ml
- Veo3 by Google
- OpenAI Sora
- RunwayML
- Kling AI
- Adobe Firefly Video
- Pika Labs
- Moonvalley AI
- Invideo AI
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Coming soon...
- Quixel / Bridge / Megascans - 3d library with plugin for Maya including plants
- Textures.com - textures library
- Turbosquid - free 3d models
- Free 3d - free 3d models
- PolyHaven - HDRI’s, textures, some models
- SketchUp 3d Warehouse - built for Sketchup, most can be repurposed
- Ultimaker’s Thingiverse - geard towards 3d printable models, but many available
- MyMiniFactory - also geared towards 3d printing
- BlendSwap - Blender model share community
- SketchFab - general 3d library, some free and some paid
- Kitbash 3d - expensive, pro-quality kitbashable models
- Artstation Marketplace - lots of assets of varying quality