We are excited to announce our next speaker: Tim van Helsdingen!
Tim has been hooked on CG since he was a teenager. After experimenting across various corners of the field, he settled into freelancing as a Houdini FX artist for over a decade. He’s also been making tutorials for years, and his Houdini tutorials on YouTube have helped dozens of people learn the ropes and land jobs in the industry.
Tim:
“Everyone keeps asking the same question. How does AI actually fit into creative workflows? I asked it too… Then I stopped asking and built something!
Imagine this: Agents moving between the creative apps on every machine in your network, calling on whatever program the work needs, or reaching out to cloud APIs when the job calls for it. Not just chat windows. Actual jobs. With priorities. With dependencies. Blender roughs out models on worker one. ComfyUI generates textures on worker two. Unreal pulls it all together on worker three. One pipeline, no hassle.
Context-aware. Every supported app offers an “Add to context” option, so models, snippets, and references drop straight into the prompt. The agents learn from the work you and your team do. Those lessons become skills, saved to your own server, ready for the next job. Or share them with the community through an online library anyone can pull from”.
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Fantastic work Tim van Helsdingen! 👏 @timvanhelsdingen is a freelance CG-Generalist / Houdini FX artist based in the Netherlands. He’s always been passionate about CG and has worked with a great variety of studios and agencies. Tim also has many free CG learning videos on his YouTube channel.
Check out his on-demand course “Build Your Brain: Cell Division in Houdini.” 🧠 Tim shows you how to seamlessly transition and blend different shots together, starting with soft body objects using a Vellum sim, then POPs to split the cells, and also how to use VDB advection to complete the growth of a brain. https://bit.ly/hs-build-your-brain
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#sidefxhoudini #solaris #karma #light #vfx
Sharing my thoughts on the VFX industry and my plans for my career and the channel. I'm going to make an attempt to leave VFX behind my and get into indie game development. The channel and all my other socials will also transition to be about gamedev (with Godot)
You can check out my video on this with the link in my profile
I've been helping out to bring Houdini support to Drop and Render! It's now live for public use, so give it a whirl! Check out the link on my profile for a video of me showing you around the plugin.
You can use code TIM_HOUDINI20 for 20% off any render credit you buy.
Learn how to split vellum simulations with Vellum fundamentals week 5! The first part of this two part tutorial is now available for free on my youtube channel. Link in bio. #houdini #3D #VFX #simulated #sidefx #satisfyingvideos
Pathsequencer for Houdini is out now! The easiest way to instance.
Want to grow fields of hundreds of thousands of flowers and drive them by attributes? Want to populate your scene with dozens of explosions carefully time by attributes? Pathsequencer to the rescue!
Check out the introduction video with link in my bio
#houdini #vfx #instancing #pathsequencer #sidefx #3D #CGI
Can finally reveal that I worked on the @taylorswift #erastour as part of the team of the amazing @humanprsn Was a lot of fun, great to see how successful the tour turned out. The picture was from me attending the tour this summer when it came to Amsterdam and I finally got to see it in person.
Played around during some downtime yesterday and made this thingy. Rendered in karma and has some simple cop materials. Thought i’d share. HIP file is on #patreon
#houdini #karmaxpu
Crushing test of a procedural building for a course that i’m putting together. Follow for more updates. #Houdini #Sidefx #3D #VFX #visualeffects #simulated
3 months late, but finally here: Vellum fundamentals - Week 4! Learn how to rip apart your vellum meshes. FUN! Check it out on Youtube (link in bio)
#houdini #simulated #sidefx #simulation #3D #animation #FX #vfx #vfxartist
