Our first THUG of the year 2025! Yes, it's been a while, and maybe even too long. We are going to start things off with a topic that has been much discussed - genAI. Without bias, we will take a look at how this approach could be used in Houdini, within Houdini 20.5, thanks to some work being done by Rafael Drelich Valentim and XAPKOHHEH. Rafael is going to give a live demo showing how it is possible to do quick lookdev on a local workstation (running RTX 4080 Super) of this mug scene you see above. With control and intent, you can iterate on the minutiae of such a simple image, without the cost of having to create all the different shaders required to try the range of looks as you can see, in a few of the preview images on the main banner. If this is interesting for you, then please RSVP as we have limited seating at SideFX HQ
