Hallam Roberts
Hallam Roberts
About Me
Hi! I'm a junior FX artist from Sydney, Australia.
I've been doing motion graphics and coding projects since 2012, and got into Houdini a few years ago. Feel free to contact me if you have any cool R&D projects!
EXPERTISE
VFX Artist
INDUSTRY
Advertising / Motion Graphics | Film/TV
Houdini Skills
ADVANCED
Karma | VEX | Python
INTERMEDIATE
Procedural Modeling | Motion Editing | Animation | Hair & Fur | Cloth | Solaris | Lighting | Pyro FX | Fluids | Destruction FX
BEGINNER
Environments | Digital Assets | Character Rigging | Crowds | Muscles | Mantra | Realtime FX | PDG
Availability
I am available for Full Time Work
My Gallery
Recent Forum Posts
Plate Project (HDA) Oct. 26, 2025, 8:02 a.m.
NDC coordinates [github.com] are great for projecting plates (photos and videos) from the camera that took them, or Ian Hubert projection tricks [www.youtube.com].
This HDA lets you project plates in 3 ways:
1. Constant Z coordinate
2. Varying Z coordinate using a depth map
3. Raying onto the object
Download here:
https://github.com/MysteryPancake/Houdini-Fun?tab=readme-ov-file#hda-plate-project [github.com]
This HDA lets you project plates in 3 ways:
1. Constant Z coordinate
2. Varying Z coordinate using a depth map
3. Raying onto the object
Download here:
https://github.com/MysteryPancake/Houdini-Fun?tab=readme-ov-file#hda-plate-project [github.com]
Extract a center line from a tube Sept. 25, 2025, 8:11 p.m.
The Laplacian can also be used to produce a straight skeleton, with similar results to Labs Straight Skeleton but much faster:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/101499/ [www.sidefx.com]
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/101499/ [www.sidefx.com]
Laplacian Filter (HDA) Sept. 14, 2025, 4:56 a.m.
The new Laplacian node [www.sidefx.com] can be used to make a geometry equalizer.
Like with sound, you can exaggerate or reduce certain frequencies (eigenvectors) of the geometry. This can be used to reduce or increase detail in certain areas, for a variety of distortion effects.
Thanks to @WhiteDo27114277 for his Eigenspace Projection example [drive.google.com]! I remade it in OpenCL for better performance.
Download here:
https://github.com/MysteryPancake/Houdini-Fun/blob/main/README.md#hda-laplacian-filter [github.com]
Like with sound, you can exaggerate or reduce certain frequencies (eigenvectors) of the geometry. This can be used to reduce or increase detail in certain areas, for a variety of distortion effects.
Thanks to @WhiteDo27114277 for his Eigenspace Projection example [drive.google.com]! I remade it in OpenCL for better performance.
Download here:
https://github.com/MysteryPancake/Houdini-Fun/blob/main/README.md#hda-laplacian-filter [github.com]