SyncTwin.ai has a cool feature where you can take a PowerPoint visual and an Excel spreadsheet to assemble a factory scene in OpenUSD. Very nice! I was wondering how to create something similar using Adobe Illustrator. I thought Illustrator might make it easier to do larger floor plans without worrying about the size of a … More OpenUSD Floor Design using Adobe Illustrator and NVIDIA Omniverse
How to do a Digital Clock (or other counter) inside an NVIDIA Omniverse scene? There are UI widgets, but they are painted on the viewport as an overlay. They are not a part of the 3D scene. Unfortunately there is no “3D text” in OpenUSD, so how to do a digital clock in a 3D … More An Omniverse Digital Clock
Omniverse have announced Omniverse Cloud, “a fully managed platform-as-a-service offering for developing generative AI-enabled OpenUSD applications.” While full details are yet to be published, browsing the Omniverse documentation, they describe how to build microservices using Omniverse Kit (their application building framework) with support for cross service API calls and a message bus. Omniverse Enterprise is … More Designing Enterprise Applications leveraging OpenUSD
In this blog post I explore sending and receiving message bus events using the NVIDIA Omniverse framework in Python. I create two extensions: one to publish messages, and another to receive them. In an Omniverse Cloud project, the message bus will span microservices (using Redis I think read somewhere). In this blog, I use it … More Accessing the Omniverse Message Bus from Python
I have been watching a number of the NVIDIA GTC (GPU Technology Conference) talks on this week. I have mainly been watching talks related to Omniverse (their 3D rendering and simulation software). I was interested in automation of simple animated videos, such as how much can AI (such as large language models) reduce the effort … More Robotics for Character Animation?
I have been exploring OpenUSD (formerly USD from Pixar) for creating computer generated animated videos. I create the characters, backgrounds, and animations as 3D models, then render it to a 2D video you can view on social media. Out of curiosity I just got a store demo of the Apple Vision Pro, exploring both 180 … More 3D Video vs 3D Animated Scenes
NVIDIA Omniverse includes a number of AI based tools, including Audio2Face and Audio2Gesture. Audio2Face takes an audio file and generates facial blend shape animations. Audio2Gesture can take the same audio file and instead generate upper or full body animation clips. But it’s not easy at first blush to combine the two results. In this blog … More Audio2Face + Audio2Gesture – Merging the Streams with OpenUSD
There was a recent Omniverse Discord thread that had some great links to videos by @Simplychenable. I am capturing the videos here for later reference. The following video on “Building Asset Pipelines” is my favorite at the moment. There is a lot of introductory content on OpenUSD. What is a prim? What is a prim … More Resources to help learn OpenUSD
I am interested in OpenUSD for portability of content. Instead of being tied to one rendering engine, my content can be rendered in multiple tools. At least that is the OpenUSD promise. But there are practical issues, one of which is materials. How to create materials that work across multiple tools? One project that gets … More OpenUSD UsdPreviewSurface Material Portability
Want to add a bit more “life” to your video voiceovers, but don’t want to show your own face? How about using a 3D avatar, synced with your facial movements? When to use an Avatar? Are avatars always the best option? No! If you are your brand (say, you are an individual business coach) then … More Animated Voiceovers
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