Speedier Trees in Houdini: Botanically inspired production - does it work? | George Hulm | Paris...

Reflecting on the state of foliage modelling after 3 years of R&D in Houdini. I will share my journey, workflow and hopefully some insights into the world of videogame plants, botanical research, simulation and UX design. I will also dive deep into the production pipeline that we have built at Applied Intuition, revealing the tips, tricks and nodes that went into building our "speedy" in-house tree creation tools.
George Hulm began his career 15 years ago as an amateur level designer in the Unreal Tournament mod community. He got his first commercial break creating levels for the indie hit Overgrowth, and since then, has worked on projects of all shapes and sizes, picking up a variety of tools and skills along the way. Recently, in the role of lead technical artist, George helped HistoricVR ship their debut Steam title, GuildfordCastleVR. These days, he tackles creative and technical challenges alongside the talented team at Applied Intuition. George teaches technical art to masters students at Gloucester University and occasionally shares tutorials via his TH-cam channel - Undini.

[@TheLizardKing752]

So cool to see someone who also modded Unreal doing one of these presentations.

[@PawelGrzelak]

Very good presentation. I enjoy ppl who can dive deep into a single topic and keep interest in it.

[@3D_GO]

You shouldn't have been nervous you are a good public speaker and did an excellent job of covering alot of material on a complex subject while highlighting both the challenges and successes of the project. Great stuff

[@spectronaut420]

that Anastasia talk is great

[@Zocress]

Great talk, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@OX_Tools]

Excited for project Pegasus! Excellent presentation.

[@zzzzzzz8473]

fantastic ! looking forward to more tool breakdowns for pegasus

[@user-se6fp7nn3v]

Loved the bruno joke

[@junglingmitapfel2902]

Nice subject! I worked on this for my masters thesis :)

[@nikolaykirchev9672]

Amazing!

[@rattlesnake3d]

labs trees 2!! yeii!!, great work :)

[@Bazyzzy]

amazing talks, thanks!

[@wnetster]

TNX George!

[@nicolaastanghe475]

Beautifull.

[@joantonio6331]

Speedier tree... I see what they did there

[@suvigyamishra4604]

Speed Tree is offended with the title.