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
EXPERTISE
CG Supervisor
INDUSTRY
Film/TV

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LOCATION
Montreal, Canada

Houdini Skills

Availability

I am currently employed at Cinesite Montreal

My Tutorials

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Material Based Destruction
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Build a Molecule HDA
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How to Eat An Elephant | Learning Strategies
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Solaris Lighting
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Material Based Destruction
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Solaris: Working with USD

My Talks

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Ocean Tools Quickstart

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.