What Gen AI diffused noise really means to me as CG Artist
Beyond the diffused noise, the spectacle, and the amusement, what many of us artists really see with every new AI announcement is a giant "F*ck You."
This personal project, a byproduct of some R&D for a freelance gig, is my visual response. Inspired by the incredible work of Panoply and Tendril, I finally got to dive into some "liquid glass" effects and ripple growth I've always wanted to achieve. It also served as the perfect excuse to push my skills by rendering with Redshift from Solaris in Houdini.
All the system started as a path growing inside the posed Robot, and then from this wires the VDB advection fills the rest of the subject, for meshing using the H attribute to blend materials and transferring UV's to properly shade them in Redshift. Thanks to Omri Lev who actually reversed engineer this technique.
Thank you!
