Con West 2020: Maria Mishurenko Its alive, but not for long

Presented at Con West 2020: My virtual reality haircutting game Bizarre Barber started as a graduate thesis, so I couldnt afford to hire professional 3D modelers and riggers to help out with character designs. My team decided to employ a procedural pipeline and write a tool that would allow us to generate thousands of characters. With the help of Houdini, Vex and Python, we set up a generator to make a variety of cute birds and mutants with bold hairstyles and automatically export them to the game engine for further processing. Sound awesome Well, little did I know about human biases that would start to emerge when an artist turns into a curator and has to make tough decisions , bangbangcon, bangbangconwest, bangbangconwest2020