Liesbeth Levick

Liesbeth_Levick

About Me

Liesbeth Levick is a Character Effects Technical Director at Side Effects Software, focusing on Muscles and Tissues. She studied Astrophysics and then moved on to work in grooming and CFX at animation and visual effects studios in South Africa and Canada. Her production experience includes creating ...  more
EXPERTISE
Technical Director

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LOCATION
Toronto, Canada
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Houdini Skills

ADVANCED
Hair & Fur  | Muscles

Availability

I am currently employed at SideFX

My Badges

SideFX Staff
Since Jun 2024

My Tutorials

obj-image Masterclass
Muscles and Tissue H21 Masterclass
obj-image Masterclass
Muscles Masterclass | Advanced & Special Topics
obj-image Masterclass
Muscles Masterclass | Essentials

My Talks

obj-image HIVE
Big Flex: Controlling Muscle Shapes with Otis

Recent Forum Posts

Driving transferred bone geo with rig from muscle transfer March 31, 2026, 9:56 a.m.

Hi casensitive,

Do the steps outlined here meet your needs? https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/muscles/muscle_ottomuscletissuesim.html#learning [www.sidefx.com]

You're essentially extracting the rig joints after your scene animate and then doing a bone deform of your transferred bones.

Otis Capybara receipe broken ? March 27, 2026, 6:13 p.m.

I made some changes in 21.0.553 that I think fixed this issue in Windows. I recommend updating to the latest production build if possible. But tell your friend to move on from 21.0.440 - that's almost eight months old and the very first release version of H21

Otis Capybara receipe broken ? March 27, 2026, 5:47 p.m.

What version of Houdini and what operating system are you on?