Bailey Hogan is a Technical Artist at SideFX on the Labs team. She has experience with Houdini to Unreal Engine pipeline integration and real-time content generation in Unity. (evironments, shaders, FX) Her current work focuses on developing tools that bring biomes to life in Houdini.

Erwin Heyms is a Procedural Pipeline Consultant & Developer at E-Houdini Academy with over 10 years of professional procedural game-dev experience on titles such as Ghost-Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint at Ubisoft. Since the Launch of Unreal 5, Erwin has been developing the Massive Worlds Toolkit, a Houdini based framework for Open World Construction, which is now being used by several game developers. Acting as a speaker at several Sidefx events of the years, Erwin has also created over 50 hours of freely available Houdini Foundation lectures bringing beginners up to speed with Houdini for Games.

Oscar Cerro has several years of experience as a Houdini Technical Artist at Fracture Labs, and as a freelance developer in collaboration with Erwin Heyms on the Massive Worlds Toolkit. Originally coming from a programming background, his experience with Houdini and Unreal ranges from world building, to procedural tool development for large scale environments. These tools include procedural construction for games, road decoration, biome distribution, and pipeline setup.

Paul Ambrosiussen is a freelance Senior Technical Artist at Bismuth Consultancy, specializing in procedural content generation, pipeline development, and the use of machine learning in creative production. He works extensively with tools like Houdini and Unreal Engine to build scalable solutions for studios. Previously, he led tool and workflow development at SideFX Labs, collaborating with teams across games, film, and tech. Paul thrives on solving complex pipeline challenges, prototyping experimental workflows, and bridging the gap between artistry and technology through talks, workshops, and community-driven initiatives. 

Moritz Schwind is gonna take part in it all - Be it pixels, hardware, code or cameras. And sometimes even reassemble it. In his spare time, he likes to dabble with code and create generative artwork. He claims his early exposure to QBasic is no help at all when working in Houdini, Blender, Processing or Arduino. But it might have been what started his fascination for the boundaries of code and art. When not wreaking havoc to any intriguing devices around him, he works as a freelance Technical and Art Director. His more recent areas of interest cover the use of scientific algorithms in generative design and the application of AI in creative fields

George Pennyfather is a Technical Artist for Q3D Studios, specializing in the production of procedural 3D tools and pipelines in SideFX Houdini. Previously an associate lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts, he now works with Q3D Studios on their production of visuals for the automotive industry and a top Formula One team’s state-of-the-art DIL simulator. George is always hunting for clever ways to save clicks and revolutionize the efficiency of the team’s pipelines.

Mohamad Salame is a Tech Artist at SideFX working on the SideFX Labs team. I like volleyball, art and Houdini and making games

Chris Chapman is Lead VFX Artist supervising the VFX team at NetherRealm Studios, his latest completed project, MK1, was nominated for a VES for outstanding VFX in a real-time project in 2024. He has been creating VFX for over twenty years in both the film and game industry. He began his VFX career, after an internship at SideFX, working at Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues studios where he created VFX with Houdini on a wide variety of live-action feature films, including The Day After Tomorrow, Chronicles of Narnia, Night at the Museum, and The Golden Compass, amongst others. He moved over to CG feature animated films creating VFX while at BlueSky Studios including the films Ice Age and Rio franchises, The Peanuts Movie, Epic, Ferdinand, and Spies in Disguise. In addition to overseeing the VFX team at NetherRealm, he occasionally finds opportunities to teach VFX at the college level and enjoys exploring the creative image-making process using procedural workflows with Houdini and Unreal.

Sam Taylor has over 10 years experience in the industry. He started his career at REALTIME working on a range of game trailers, cinematics, and advertising projects. A passion for technical problem solving and knowledge sharing led him to join the lecturing team at the University of Bolton to help establish the technical areas of their VFX and Animation degree course and bring Houdini into their pipeline. During his seven years at Bolton, he continued to work as a freelance Generalist, most often for Screenclay FX on some of their film and TV projects. His experience has seen him take on roles including Generalist, FX Artist, Cloth TD, Texture, Shader and Look Dev Artist, Lead 3D Artist, CG Supervisor, Environment Asset Build and Layout and 3D Asset Technical Build. Sam returned to REALTIME in the position of Head of Innovation & Development, where he is in charge of staff development and training, and exploring emerging technologies and techniques. He has also established REALTIME's junior training scheme (The Level Up Programme) to help new junior artists get their first job in the industry.

Matt Estela has a long and varied career in VFX and animation, with experience at studios like Animal Logic and Framestore CFC. He is also known for his expertise in Houdini, and for contributing to CG educational resources. He is a currently a Senior Houdini Artist at Google, and used Gemini to write this bio.

Thomas Tobin is a technical Art Director specializing in procedural environment creation for AAA games. Pioneered systems at Unity and Ubisoft that reduced environment creation time from months to days. Currently leading synthetic world development for video AI while teaching at Vertex School. GDC speaker with expertise across multiple platforms, known for combining technical innovation with leadership to deliver cutting-edge procedural solutions.

Slater Victoroff is the CEO of Mythica, a board member at Indico Data, and an Entrepreneur in Residence at 406 Ventures. He co-founded Indico Data in 2012 to make deep learning more accessible, helping to develop LLMs, generative AI and foundation models. Slater also served as VP of Research at Neocybernetica, focusing on embodied AI and world models. He now leads Mythica, merging his deep AI expertise with procedural innovations to create open-source tools for game development. He is well known for his passionate love of mushrooms.   

Thomas Tobin is a technical Art Director specializing in procedural environment creation for AAA games. Pioneered systems at Unity and Ubisoft that reduced environment creation time from months to days. Currently leading synthetic world development for video AI while teaching at Vertex School. GDC speaker with expertise across multiple platforms, known for combining technical innovation with leadership to deliver cutting-edge procedural solutions.

Dmytro Kucherenko  is a Technical Artist specializing in computer simulation and graphics technologies across both gaming and cinema industries. My career began as a graphic software engineer before transitioning into game development, where I specialized as a technical artist focusing on performance optimization and pipeline efficiency. With advanced proficiency in Houdini, Unreal Engine, and experience in programming and scripting, I bridge the gap between artistic vision and technical implementation. Currently, at Zibra AI, I've evolved from my technical artist role into a Product Owner position, where I manage the company's product portfolio.

Simon Verstraete is a tech Artist that loves building procedural tools and assets. By adding more and more procedural approaches to his workflow, he is able to build 3D models with speed and flexibility. Previously worked at Exiin and with SideFX, and now at Studio Gobo as senior tech artist.

Matt Estela is a skilled woodworker and content creator. Matt Estela on the other hand makes CGWiki, and has been doing CG before a lot of Houdini people were born. He currently works at Google.