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Kyle Lin 林敬家
Houdini FX Artist


Feb 10, 2023
Mini City - Midterm Update
I have been working on fixing bugs and rework the sidewalk since the last post. The main issue I was trying to fix is the mesh of the...
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Jan 31, 2023
Mini City - Part I Step 2: Sidewalk and Road Furniture
I have been working on adding the sidewalk, and road furniture and fixing some bugs during week 3. The first thing I did was fix the code...
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Jan 23, 2023
Mini City - Part I Step 1: Interactive Road Tool
The first two weeks I have been working on creating the road tool for the based on the city generator since everything will be based on...
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Jan 9, 2023
Mini City - Concept
Project Concept For my senior project, I want to do something that can illustrate all the aspects of Houdini skills that I have, so I...
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Jun 2, 2022
Week 10 FINAL and Breakdown
Finally, it's week 10! Our team has finalized our Ducati commercial, and started to work on the breakdown of our own contribution to the...
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May 31, 2022
Week 9 Create End Title and Credits
What I have done this week: Create the end title and credits. Goals for next week: Create the breakdown for what I have done in this...
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May 24, 2022
Senior Project Short Pre-Vis
My idea of the senior project is making a horror short film of a student being chased by a monster after he left the school. However, he...
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May 24, 2022
Week 8 Refine Portal/ Light Streak FX
What I have done this week: Figured out what's wrong with my file not rendering on the farm. Move the portal to the right in shot 1....
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May 17, 2022
Week 7 Refine Portal/ Light Streak FX
What I have done this week: Refine portal and light streak effects. Create different render passes for compositing such as heat...
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May 10, 2022
Week 6 Refine Portal & Add Light Streak Effect
What I have done this week: Create light streak effects. Add more layers and variations to the portal. Add variation in color, so it does...
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May 3, 2022
Week 5 Refine Portal
What I have done this week: Remove the wireframe of the portal to break up the shape. Remove the multi-layer effect. Add interaction when...
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May 3, 2022
Senior Project Idea
Houdini Effects and CG integration. Particles, destruction, or water? Simulation based. Idea1: Supernatural things destroying building...
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Apr 26, 2022
Week 4 - Refine Portal
What I have done mostly in week 4 is refining the portal, add interaction when the motorcycle goes through the portal, and figure out how...
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Apr 19, 2022
Week 3 - Portal R&D
A quick breakdown of what we have done for this week is that we reshoot the footage for the first shot because of the camera motion. I am...
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Apr 19, 2022
Project 2 - Observation Analysis and Concept Variation
Good Fight Scene Examples 1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2. Shaolin 1977 3. Ip man 4. John Wick 3 Bad Fight Scene I Chose for the...
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Apr 12, 2022
Week 2 - R&D and Shooting Live Plate
For this week, we had shot our live plate footage and start doing R&D for the effects. Here are the progress video for team Ducati. My...
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Apr 4, 2022
Week 1 - Idea and Pitch
This is the first week of the collaboration class with The Mill. During the week I got to know my teammates Alexis Behilo, Nathan Huseth,...
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Apr 4, 2022
Project 1: What if...?
The main goal of the first project in VSFX 406 concept development class is to open our creativities. At the first day of class, the...
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