03 papers — open research, published for the industry
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R-01AI Slop Is a Craft Problem, Not a Tech ProblemWe are an animation and visual effects studio. We spent years learning to make frames that hold up on the biggest screens in the world, and we use AI to amplify that craft, never to replace the judgement behind it. Our position on AI slop, from the floor of a working studio.PUB — AUG 2026CAT — publicationLIC — OPEN SOURCE
R-02CrucibleAn open-source Hydra scene index plugin that cooks Houdini HDAs lazily at Karma render time. Author a CrucibleProcedural prim in USD and the referenced HDA is evaluated on Houdini's main thread, its output mesh injected into the Hydra scene, with no pre-cooking, no LOPs recook, and no HAPI session to manage.PUB — MAY 2026CAT — vfx pipelineLIC — OPEN SOURCE
R-03houdini_usd_gsplatAn open-source native integration of 3D Gaussian Splatting into Houdini Solaris via a first-class USD schema, UsdImaging adapter, and CPU Hydra render delegate, bringing Gaussian splats into the USD scene graph as proper USD primitives with full Houdini LOP workflows.PUB — MAY 2026CAT — vfx pipelineLIC — OPEN SOURCE
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