Yunus Balcioglu

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About Me

Senior FX Technical Director @ Industrial Light & Magic | Feature film credits include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Marvel's Eternals, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, X-Men: Apocalypse, Aquaman, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean, Justice League and many m...  more
EXPERTISE
Technical Director
INDUSTRY
Film/TV

Connect

LOCATION
Singapore, Singapore

Houdini Skills

ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling  | Digital Assets  | Mantra  | Pyro FX  | Fluids  | Destruction FX  | VEX  | Python
INTERMEDIATE
Realtime FX

Availability

Not Specified

My Tutorials

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Pragmatic VEX: Volume 1
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Pragmatic VEX: Volume 1

My Talks

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Retiming Ocean Spectra & The Pragmatic Approach to Solving Technical Problems in VFX
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Face Peeling Using KineFX

Recent Forum Posts

Bounding box size of a group May 20, 2024, 4:02 a.m.

Chawki
Hi,

Is there a way to reference the bounding box size of a group within a primitive without blasting that primitive group ?
In my specific case I would like to Xform just the group on Y according to it's Y size
"bbox(0,D_YSIZE)" considers the entire primitive Ysize and not the group entered above in teh group field. Is there a dedicated expression or a workaround to do so ?

Thank you

Hi,

For max performance I would recommend using the Bound SOP and then referencing this node in your bbox expression.

Houdini Shorts May 17, 2024, 1:04 a.m.

Sky voice again

What’s the best holistic Houdini tutorial series out there? May 15, 2024, 6:13 a.m.

psionicsin
Hello all!

I’m a UX Product Designer that’s decided to learn Houdini for the first time. My goal is to hopefully be able to find that intersection between UX Product Design and how Houdini can help with that for future concepts.

My question is: What would be the most all inclusive tutorial series out there that would be both friendly (semi-new here), holistic and give an idea for future growth and experimentation?

FYI. I’ve watched many tutorials through the years, so I understand how Houdini works. What I don’t have is the experience to align this knowledge and make it stick via repetition.

It's hard to find a single tutorial that has all the things you want but you can look through the list of tutorials here and watch the ones you are interested to get some ideas. Something that's seemingly completely unrelated might be of interest in your field:

https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials [www.sidefx.com]

Shameless plug my course is also there
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/pragmatic-vex-volume-1 [www.sidefx.com]