William Harley

william_harley

About Me

I started my career doing lighting, lookdev and VFX in Cape Town. Always looking to streamline the character rigging and animation process I got involved in setting up a rigging tools in houdini and assisting animators to get used to the new tools, I have fallen in love with CFX, building rigs ...  more
EXPERTISE
Generalist
INDUSTRY
Film/TV

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LOCATION
Cape Town, South Africa
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Houdini Skills

ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling  | Digital Assets  | Character Rigging  | Lighting  | Pyro FX  | VEX
INTERMEDIATE
Environments  | Motion Editing  | Animation  | Hair & Fur  | Cloth  | Crowds  | Muscles  | Solaris  | Karma  | Fluids  | Destruction FX  | Realtime FX  | PDG  | Python

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My Badges

SideFX Staff
Since Oct 2023

My Tutorials

obj-image Masterclass
APEX Rigging | Masterclass
obj-image Intermediate
Luchador & Chicken

Recent Forum Posts

Simple RIG in APEX--- Need Help Dec. 5, 2024, 1:44 a.m.

Hi, it looks like its working on my side. You do however have to set up some positions for it to work.
The main one will be the tilt offset.

Another thing, you are making the skeleton sections and it looks like their orientations are good, but then you add a orientjoints
which is giving you some weird rotations. Maybe get rid of the orienjoints and just orient them properly on the skeleton node. There are some neat tools in the right click menu when using the skeleton sop that can help you get there a bit quicker.

Simple RIG in APEX--- Need Help Nov. 19, 2024, 1:21 p.m.

Please make sure that your guide skeleton naming is consistent.

- In the pack folder set the shp to Base.shp and the guides to Guides.skel
- In the Fk_SetUp in the source tab set the skeleton to Guides.skel instead of Guide.skel.

The guide naming is important as every component uses it, you can name it anything you want but you have to be consistent.

Please look at the example files...

Simple RIG in APEX--- Need Help Nov. 19, 2024, 2:34 a.m.

Please have a look at the new electra example in the content library https://www.sidefx.com/contentlibrary/electra-rig/ [www.sidefx.com]