Charlotte Delannoy

Giorgy Macharashvili talked about the production of pyro simulations, mushroom-shaped smoke, and tree population in Houdini. Houdini FX REEL. G Macharashvili on Vimeo. Introduction My name is Giorgy Macharashvili, I am 28 and I work at CGF Visual Effects Studio as an FX artist. I came into CG nearly accidentally. I am a stage director by training and more than that, I grew up in a village without the Internet and got my first computer only when I was 18.

Francisco Garcia-Obledo shared the way he and his colleagues improved the blood in Assassin’s Creed 3 Remastered. The purpose of this post is to show how we improved the blood from AC3 with the latest tech changes we implemented in Anvil. This is how the blood looks like in the final game. Here is a comparison. In the original game, the blood was simulated with just one particle emitter with a generic texture (the same texture map was used to simulate dirt, snow bits, etc).

You might have heard about NVIDIA’s AI projects called GauGAN and Image Inpainting that use deep learning to edit images and create highly realistic scenes. If you haven’t, here’s a little overview, since today you can finally play around with both of these tools! As NVIDIA Research team says, GauGAN “leverages generative adversarial networks, or GANs, to convert segmentation maps into lifelike images”.