oldteapot7
In other H20 rumours thred somone found that SideFX could be thinking of refreshing 2D nodes (i havnt even touched them yet so i could be completly wrong) i dont even remember how those nodes were called but i mean one that can do compositing like Nuke or AfterFX.
Do you guys think that some alpha or beta of those could be in H20? And how you imagine or wish it will look like and what feautures itll have?
personally i hope that it will push for some UI/UX changes. by this i mean UI more similar to cascadour. therefor working with animation or camera seqencer could be easier too. (a bit like AfterFX keys field right below 3D view with lots of options on organizing, filering, labeling keys. Great for animators as well)
another one is that i could import reference footage of lates say face. quicly edit it, retime, cut etc. then use AI similar to Nukes CopyCat and translate 2D animation into 3D model of face (2D drives 3D using AI ML) so.. any correction from client i will do in 2D part (like lipsync) will be automaticly translate into 3D model.
so i hope that any tools for manipulating video will come as one of the first. this include all 2D warps, morphs, streches, time manipulation, key inerpolation for generating inbetweans. Also 2D/3D tracking so i could connect lates say corner of mounth to courner of mounth in 3D object.
Also all 2D AI models like Meta's (Facebook) segmentation, facial landmarks and all others
But i could understand it all wrong so this could be not that what i thought (Somethink like Nukes and AfterFX in Houdini) That would be cool anyway
there was noted that the viewport will be Vulkan alone that task is big for the UX Team. next year the
VFX Platform [
vfxplatform.com] will be updated to QT 6.5.X that could bring some UX improvement.
there was Rumors for 2D Compositing that could come to H20 and some talks years ago. Video Editing NLE would be a nice but it would be a task for a later release.
all the beta's (tissue, kineFX, Karma XPU, ...) should be production ready!
what i like more is that the SOP's 2.0 / invoke compile graph could change how the houdini HScript core can be removed and maybe a good bye HIP?
AI is a nice topic and with
MLOPS [
github.com] we have got at least a playground for experiments and understand how it could be used by Artist's.
we are 2 Month's way for H20 we need to wait, everything will be fine