Hello!

The first of the 2013 VHUG meetings is happening Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013 at Image Engine. They are at: 15 West 5th Avenue Vancouver and that time of night should offer easy parking, or easy bus access from 2nd and Ontario.

The topics are:

Mike Rhone will give a brief talk on his experiences learning Houdini as a person with a technical Maya background. He will highlight differences in workflow and concepts between the two programs, and will attempt to translate some of the more common tools and functions for artists that already have a solid foundation in Maya

Koen Vroeijenstijn will give a brief introduction on the design of openvdb, the new open source sparse volume format developed at DreamWorks Animation. He will then illustrate these ideas using a few of the houdini tools included in the openvdb distribution.

See you there!

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Cheers,

Peter B

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