Robert Magee
rmagee
About Me
Robert Magee is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at SideFX who has been working with Houdini for 20 years. He has created lots of learning material and demos designed to help artists understand how going procedural with Houdini can benefit their work.
EXPERTISE
Generalist
INDUSTRY
Education | Film/TV | Gamedev
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LOCATION
Toronto,
Canada
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Houdini Skills
INTERMEDIATE
Procedural Modeling | Digital Assets | Character Rigging | Solaris | Mantra | Karma | PDG
BEGINNER
Pyro FX | Fluids
Availability
I am currently employed at SideFX
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SideFX Staff
Since May 2002
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Contest Updates Oct. 17, 2025, 3:44 p.m.
Two updates for the contest:
1) The deadline has been moved to January 16, 2026 so that no-one has to lose out on their new year's eve festivities.
2) There is now a Submission Form [docs.google.com] to fill out when you complete and publish your lesson. This will help us better organize the entries as they come in.
1) The deadline has been moved to January 16, 2026 so that no-one has to lose out on their new year's eve festivities.
2) There is now a Submission Form [docs.google.com] to fill out when you complete and publish your lesson. This will help us better organize the entries as they come in.
Welcome Oct. 14, 2025, 12:27 p.m.
MatEvil
1- Can I use a Houdini Apprentice license?
Yes
MatEvil
2- Can I create more lessons in the different Categories? (e.g I can record one video for Modeling and one for VFX? )
Yes but only one per lesson type.
MatEvil
3- Can I use the infographics inside the video and/or show a different software or not?
Yes
MatEvil
"Videos should be at a minimum 10 minutes long to be eligible. If you make a multi-video then some lessons such as an introduction might be less than 10 minutes but the total of all videos should be more than 10 minutes."
4- so I can create one lesson of 12 minutes and split it into 3 videos, for example?
YES
MatEvil
Lessons must be uploaded to the entrant's profile on the SideFX website.
5- so I should post in the tutorial section on SideFX website follow the "tutorial guideline" right?
YES
Welcome Oct. 6, 2025, 10:44 a.m.
Umang_Raj
Can we use different languages for the tutorials? such as Hindi? And also, will teaching about houdini to cryengine come into the gamedev tutorials category, and will hdk come into the pipeline category?
Thank you
All tutorials need to be in English as per the Tutorial Guideline [www.sidefx.com] document.
It is the Lesson Type that drives the submission so Houdini to CryEngine would be "Gamedev and Realtime" and HDK would be "Production and Workflow Lesson" - We currently don't have a category for CryEngine - maybe use the Digital Asset category under pipeline. HDk would be pipeline.