Houdini 20 Sneak Peek 

... and not Autodesk hand.

thanks for letting us do so _and_ the extra efforts, Stuart!

Was just wondering as I was enjoying it. Great job!

do you use houdini

As a Houdini user I discovered your music. Excellent sound.

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Autodesk will become a joke. Unless they do something breathtaking with their sculpting (mudbox), fx (bifrost), viewport rendering (MaterialX ?) and optimization.

@@AyushBakshi will become? I believe it already is a joke. Companies that incorporated autodesk in their pipeline would prefer to make in-house tools and stick to autodesk instead of completely replacing it(as it'd cost a lot to do that) but looking at how amazing sidefx is evolving with every update, it seems like its only a matter of time before that happens. Once houdini becomes all vulkan, it'll be the hottest talk of the town.

@@FullGardenStudent yeah. My company is still stuck to a good degree on Maya. Lots of effort was put in building the internal tools. I curse it every time I open hypershade.

@@FullGardenStudent unfortunately Autodesk own a sh!t ton of other tools so it's unlikely to go bankrupt soon.

@@AyushBakshi bifrost is just a pugin. Maya's base architecture is flawed, because it has never been updated and it's severely outdated, imho. The API is bloated too. It would need a reboot to be competitive. On the other hand, at each one of Houdini's iterations, I feel like a child before Christmas who cannot wait to play with his new toy ❤

Thank you tim for XPu stuff

Thanks for your dedication Tim, and thanks for passing your knowledge on. You're great!

But what else do they want if they have all the tools already, it is important to know that the following updates will be for karma, the only thing left is for us to have a 3D tracker and we will be complete

Lol Fr..

It’s literally the main tool in all my previous studios, haha.

@@AndreiChifan 😂🤣

@@AndreiChifan exactly... "tool" but Maya/Max is mainframe in pipeline in most studios still. Even if Hou is way more powerful nowadays.

@@romancech2723 which studios use Max beside Scanline and Blur? Max was widely used, yes. But Maya has taken it’s place since ages and it’s a totally different story today as Houdini seems to be the preferred choice for scene assembly and lighting. Even above Katana sometimes. At least in Europe. Because it’s truly procedural. I don’t know exactly what the current situation in Asia/US is, but from what I talked with some artists Gaffer is rarely used, Katana is used a lot, Maya still is, but I never heard 1 person say he/she loves working in Maya. Max is still widely used in Arch Viz but less and less in VFX/Games besides maybe modelling and a bit of FX. Yeah tyFlow, Pheonix etc are amazing, but I think Houdini has a more solid point for documentation/community etc. Houdini really lacks at destructive modelling/sculpting but maybe H25 will also have that in the future lol

The dynasty might last 4 or 5 years. Before generative AI makes human artists nearly obsolete :(

@@crystalparticle7349 I hope you are right, but I could see people with zero art or technical 3d skills write prompts like "give me a 3d scene of a beach with palm trees and a large alien ship looming overhead. I want simulations for steam and energy rolling off the alien ship, and the palm trees and waves of the ocean blowing from the force of the nearby ship". So like in 2 minutes the AI will generate a gorgeous 3d scene, and us artists will just slow down the process.

AI is not just about art, it can be used in many other aspects, AI is already used in rendering denoisers, and probably in various other aspects like animation etc, you can integrate it in simulations and it will determine the supposed path of the particle, helping in faster simulations, lets face it AI is after all a fragment of human creativity created by human creativity, it will probably never reach our expertise by 100% @@PandaJerk007

@@crystalparticle7349 I honestly wonder if the people that spam that on every single art video out there aren't themselves just generative AI.

Is it hard to learn? I wanna learn it but it seems daunting especially because of the fact that I see a lot of people using code in Houdini and I don't know anything about coding beyond printing "Hello world" .

@@M_k-zi3tn hard depends on the context. But since you have never programmed before, it will probably take a few weeks longer to learn all the Houdini Vex code and all that. Nothing should to hard to grasp. Besides the math of course lol

@@alvin3171997 MATH!? Oh no...

​@@M_k-zi3tnit's easy, just start now, and one year later you will be there.

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