Last Monday, as a part of our Exploratory Practice course, we had a session with Angel Cano, a Senior Layout Artist and CG Generalist with 10 years of experience. He started the lecture by explaining the VFX Pipeline, which connects all the departments—modeling, texturing, lookdev, layout, animation, FX, lighting, and compositing—into one continuous chain. We…

In Term 2, we completed four Houdini tutorial sessions. The first two focused on introducing the software—covering its interface, core tools, and fundamental node-based workflows. Having used Houdini consistently for the past two years, I found these sessions to be a valuable refresher, reinforcing my understanding of the software’s structure and its capabilities at a…