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

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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

My Talks

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Adaptive Fracture Synthesis and Propagation in VEX
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Face Peeling Using KineFX
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Retiming Ocean Spectra & The Pragmatic Approach to Solving Technical Problems in VFX

Recent Forum Posts

I'm just getting started... Sept. 24, 2026, 1:24 p.m.

xDemNx
Hello. Is it somehow possible to disable the grid in the volume slicer ?
Often the grid get so dense that the voxels become invisible, if the resolution of the volume gets higher..

Hi,

You can take a volume slice rather than a polygonal grid.

osd_scheme and subdivision viewport overrides Sept. 9, 2026, 2:39 a.m.

Hi,

I run into the same issue so I filed an RFE about this #154417. If more people do the same, they might fix this sooner.

It seems like there are fewer and fewer commercial tutorials Sept. 4, 2026, 3:55 a.m.

I'm still creating commercial Houdini training. My Pragmatic VEX course actually received a major update recently, and I'm currently working on Volume 2 as well, which I hope to release soon.

From my perspective, producing this kind of material is definitely a significant investment of time, especially when you want to cover more advanced topics in depth and keep the material updated as Houdini evolves. But I don't think commercial Houdini training is disappearing entirely. There are still people creating it