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Texas A&M visualization students recently presented projects in Houdini software<\/a> at the Houdini Education HIVE Gamedev conference<\/a> at dadaLab in Austin. The event also included an “art battle,” and visualization student Vy-Victoria Lam was the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vy-Victoria Lam won an art battle with her “plush cake.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A subject \u2014 “plush cake” \u2014 was randomly selected, and four competitors had to create something in Houdini based on that subject in 45 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lam said she wanted to “keep it simple,” and came up with a “tiered cake with a cute little face on it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lam called the event “extremely fun, but also super stressful at the same time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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