Yunus Balcioglu

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About Me

Senior FX Technical Director @ Industrial Light & Magic | Feature film credits include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Marvel's Eternals, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, X-Men: Apocalypse, Aquaman, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean, Justice League and many m...  more
EXPERTISE
Technical Director
INDUSTRY
Film/TV

Connect

LOCATION
Singapore, Singapore

Houdini Skills

ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling  | Digital Assets  | Mantra  | Pyro FX  | Fluids  | Destruction FX  | VEX  | Python
INTERMEDIATE
Realtime FX

Availability

Not Specified

My Tutorials

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Pragmatic VEX: Volume 1

My Talks

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Adaptive Fracture Synthesis and Propagation in VEX
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Face Peeling Using KineFX
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Retiming Ocean Spectra & The Pragmatic Approach to Solving Technical Problems in VFX

Recent Forum Posts

Pragmatic VEX: Volume 1 [4K] [H20] Feb. 12, 2026, 12:59 a.m.

Smooth SOP not respecting attribute mask/group from Intersec Feb. 9, 2026, 3:56 a.m.

It's hard to see without the hip file, but you can try performing a lerp operation after the smooth operation using your mask attribute:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/vex/functions/lerp.html [www.sidefx.com]

Pragmatic VEX: Volume 1 [4K] [H20] Jan. 20, 2026, 3:38 a.m.