Visualization student wins art battle at Houdini conference
Texas A&M visualization students recently presented projects in Houdini software at the Houdini Education HIVE Gamedev conference at dadaLab in Austin. The event also included an “art battle,” and visualization student Vy-Victoria Lam was the winner.
A subject — “plush cake” — was randomly selected, and four competitors had to create something in Houdini based on that subject in 45 minutes.
Lam said she wanted to “keep it simple,” and came up with a “tiered cake with a cute little face on it.”
And then, three minutes before the deadline, the file crashed. She scrambled to re-create the plush cake, and her efforts took the top spot.
Lam called the event “extremely fun, but also super stressful at the same time.”
“I’m not used to a whole audience watching and commentating my every move while I make something,” Lam said, “but I did have a lot of fun competing with my peers.”
