He lives for the rush of seeing students experience 'light bulb' moments!įelipe Amaya is a Houdini FX artist at FuseFX NYC.

John has been teaching various visual effects software packages to creative industry professionals for more than 20 years. Her clients have included Intel, Mattel, and The UCLA Art|Sci Center.ĬOMMENTATOR | John Moncrief is the Education & Training Manager at SideFX. She is passionate about scientific visualization, motion graphics, and emerging technologies. She loves community building, hosts monthly Houdini Battles, and co-organizes The Los Angeles Houdini User group (LAHUG). and has over 10 years of experience teaching Houdini. She teaches at UCLA in the Design Media Arts Dept. MODERATOR | Debra Isaac is a visual artist, animator, and the founder of Houdini.School. You as our audience will choose the winner at the end. Each battle’s theme will remain secret until we start, then each player has 45 minutes to create a work of art. He's here to drink coffee and develop tools, and he's all out of coffee at the moment.Ġ4:50 Sampling Terrain Color from Google Maps (SOP/UX)Ġ6:05 Versioned Houdini Digital Assets (UX)Ģ1:21 Vertex Animation Textures 3.Welcome to Houdini/Unreal Art Battle, where 4 players compete live and show off their talent. Mai Ao is a new member of SideFX Labs team and a technical artist who previously worked in game productions creating procedural pipelines, FX simulations, and shaders. He creates tutorials, gives live lectures, attends events, and presents custom workshops to customers. His goal is to help others create amazing things in a better, faster and more flexible way. Paul enjoys writing tools to support effective art-pipelines, and maintaining tool / workflow quality for the artists he is assisting. He finished his BASc in International Game Architecture and Design at NHTV University of Applied Sciences in Breda. Paul Ambrosiussen is currently a Technical Artist and Game Tools Developer at SideFX Software.

Paul and Mai will be talking about several enhancements that have been made with a focus on improved UX and functionality, as well as some new additions to the toolset.

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