Esther Trilsch
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About Me
Esther Trilsch is a Senior Character TD at SideFX. She started her career as a character TD apprentice at Walt Disney Animation Studios working on Zootopia, and worked at RiseFX as a Character Supervisor and Pipeline TD. Combining her focus for both the creative side of anatomy and deformation, as w... more
Esther Trilsch is a Senior Character TD at SideFX. She started her career as a character TD apprentice at Walt Disney Animation Studios working on Zootopia, and worked at RiseFX as a Character Supervisor and Pipeline TD. Combining her focus for both the creative side of anatomy and deformation, as well as the technical side of RnD, she found her sweet spot in the building of innovative structures and tools for character workflows. less
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Since May 2021
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Recent Forum Posts
Directly Editing Graphs non-destructively in APEX June 25, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
You can use the fuse graph workflow this is designed exactly for that. It allows manual graphs edits that then get procedurally fused into the main rig graph.
Go to the Fuse Graph Section in this Tutorial section here:
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/intro-to-rig-builder/ [www.sidefx.com]
And here is also a walk through from the docs:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/character/kinefx/customrigs.html [www.sidefx.com]
Go to the Fuse Graph Section in this Tutorial section here:
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/intro-to-rig-builder/ [www.sidefx.com]
And here is also a walk through from the docs:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/character/kinefx/customrigs.html [www.sidefx.com]
having issue with Violet workflow April 6, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
I could not reproduce the issue so it might be a preference issue. it might help pressing the teddy bear icon closing houdini and restarting again. This is very much a shot in the dark though. And yes a bug and an example file would help a lot.
Apex Script:Component: How to use subnets Dec. 21, 2025, 4:41 p.m.
in the given example you are mixing the graph api and functions. These are 2 very different concept and can simply semantically not be combined like that. If you want the node as an object you assing to a varialbe then you need to do
my_node = graph.adNode('TransformObject')...
my_node.xform_out.connect(my_othernode.xform_out)
if you want to use a function then you can only call it.
xform: Matrix4 = TransformObject()
this can NOT be combined, within the same call. Its really and either or case because both syntax options work entirely differently. Nothing stops you though from creating a new graph in a seperate function and if you want to mix directly building graphs and working with code then the custom fuse graph example from the given example gives some options as well.
my_node = graph.adNode('TransformObject')...
my_node.xform_out.connect(my_othernode.xform_out)
if you want to use a function then you can only call it.
xform: Matrix4 = TransformObject()
this can NOT be combined, within the same call. Its really and either or case because both syntax options work entirely differently. Nothing stops you though from creating a new graph in a seperate function and if you want to mix directly building graphs and working with code then the custom fuse graph example from the given example gives some options as well.