Zak Katara

zakkatara

About Me

Biomedical Animator - Lead Houdini Artist at Hybrid Medical Animation Instagram: @zakkatara
EXPERTISE
Generalist
INDUSTRY
Advertising / Motion Graphics

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LOCATION
Minneapolis, United States

Houdini Skills

ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling  | Solaris  | Lighting  | PDG
INTERMEDIATE
Environments  | Digital Assets  | Motion Editing  | Animation  | Hair & Fur  | Cloth  | Crowds  | Karma  | Pyro FX  | Fluids  | Destruction FX  | VEX  | Python
BEGINNER
Character Rigging

Availability

I am currently employed at Hybrid Medical Animation

Recent Forum Posts

Day 25 | Dance | Animation March 25, 2026, 11:58 p.m.

Day 25 - Dance

I didn't have nearly enough time to render this, so here's a flipbook of my ghost dance

Day 24 | Swarm | Image March 24, 2026, 11:49 p.m.

Day 24 - Swarm - Ladybug Flower

This one was fun, hope you all like it!

FLOPs used for the flower, MOPs and BranchK were also used for the scattering and de-intersection of the beetles

Day 23 | Orbit | Image March 23, 2026, 9:06 p.m.

Day 23 - Orbit - Atomic

Glowy atom mmmmmm