Sean Lewkiw
mrCatfish
About Me
I have almost 30 years of VFX production experience as a VFX Supervisor, DFX Supervisor, CG Supervisor and Houdini FX artist. My credits include Lord of the Rings, Superman Returns, Golden Compass, Watchmen, Mazerunner, and many many more, and stints at Weta, DNEG, Method, Framestore, Cinesite and ... more
I have almost 30 years of VFX production experience as a VFX Supervisor, DFX Supervisor, CG Supervisor and Houdini FX artist. My credits include Lord of the Rings, Superman Returns, Golden Compass, Watchmen, Mazerunner, and many many more, and stints at Weta, DNEG, Method, Framestore, Cinesite and others. Please see my IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507909/
I have extensive teaching experience as both Lead FX Instructor at Lostboys School of VFX in Montreal, and I am currently Head of CG for Onboarding (new hire training) at Cinesite. I focus on the fundamentals, so that you understand what you are doing and why you are doing it -- that you can take what you learned and actually use it to create new content.
I have also been using Houdini since its inception, way way back in the before days. I still love what I do and hope to keep on doing it for many years to come! less
EXPERTISE
CG Supervisor
INDUSTRY
Film/TV
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LOCATION
Montreal,
Canada
WEBSITE
Houdini Skills
Availability
I am currently employed at Cinesite Montreal
My Tutorials
Recent Forum Posts
Blend Shapes from CHOP Feb. 24, 2025, 8:40 a.m.
I don't know anything about the FBX stuff itself, but for chops, it might help to:
- Set Houdini to "Update Never"
- Dive into CHOPs
- In the moiton fx viewer pane, toggle everything off under "options" (these choices are not persistent)
- Under graphs -> Graphs per single channel
- Make sure only one chop is displayed, (remember, you have to alt-click to exclusively choose the display flag)
Carve node on multiple segments line problem Dec. 18, 2024, 9:26 a.m.
Here is a solution.
Animating Visibility of the Geometry in SOP Dec. 18, 2024, 6:57 a.m.
The visibility SOP does exactly this.