
Sean Lewkiw
mrCatfish
About Me
Sean has over 25 years of VFX production experience as a VFX Supervisor, DFX Supervisor, CG Supervisor and Houdini FX artist. His credits include Lord of the Rings, Superman Returns, Golden Compass, Watchmen, Mazerunner, and many many more, and stints at Weta, DNEG, Method, Framestore and others. S... more
Sean has over 25 years of VFX production experience as a VFX Supervisor, DFX Supervisor, CG Supervisor and Houdini FX artist. His credits include Lord of the Rings, Superman Returns, Golden Compass, Watchmen, Mazerunner, and many many more, and stints at Weta, DNEG, Method, Framestore and others. See his IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507909/ Sean has extensive teaching experience as Lead FX Instructor for four years. He focusses on the fundamentals so that you understand what you are doing and why you are doing it, so that you can take what you learned and actually use it to create new content. Sean has also worked with Sidefx Software creating documentation for Houdini itself. He has also been using Houdini since its inception! less
EXPERTISE
CG Supervisor
INDUSTRY
Film/TV
Houdini Skills
Availability
I am currently employed at Cinesite Montreal
My Tutorials
Recent Forum Posts
Blend Shapes from CHOP Feb. 24, 2025, 8:40 a.m.
I don't know anything about the FBX stuff itself, but for chops, it might help to:
- Set Houdini to "Update Never"
- Dive into CHOPs
- In the moiton fx viewer pane, toggle everything off under "options" (these choices are not persistent)
- Under graphs -> Graphs per single channel
- Make sure only one chop is displayed, (remember, you have to alt-click to exclusively choose the display flag)
Carve node on multiple segments line problem Dec. 18, 2024, 9:26 a.m.
Here is a solution.
Animating Visibility of the Geometry in SOP Dec. 18, 2024, 6:57 a.m.
The visibility SOP does exactly this.