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Lewis Taylor

@lewisvtaylor.bsky.social
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Visual Effects Artist, Engineer, Skateboarder, all around nice Dude if a little grouchy. Currently working at Cosmic Dino Studio as CFX Supervisor on The Bluey Movie.

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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I've started to post tuts here. I'm trying to keep it pretty loose, not too formal, but there will be more considered tuts on a variety of topics. www.patreon.com/cw/LewisVTay...
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Lewis V Taylor — short form tutorials on Computer Graphics, VFX, Animation
Get more from Lewis V Taylor on Patreon. short form tutorials on Computer Graphics, VFX, Animation. Support Lewis V Taylor and get exclusive access to their work.
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MOPs @motionoperators.com · 24/10/2025
A new MOPs+ release is out! This introduces the MOPs+ Camera, a fully-featured camera rig with all kinds of fun and quick controls for animating cameras easily in the viewport. Check the demo videos and the full release notes here: motionoperators.com/blog/index.p...
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Introducing MOPsCam – MOPs Blog
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
After a bit of work back and forth, we now have some new features in the VDB Volume shader. Namely density and anisotropy fading, and shadow density fading.
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Matt Estela - cgwiki @cgwiki.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Great intro to Solaris from Matt Tillman. Watch it right now. youtu.be/WfC16LYYIAw?...
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Had some time, decided to take the CG Forge Karma Vs Redshift test scene, and run it through 3delight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Kt... 3delight required zero setting of tessellation, thresholds, etc. There are only 3 user setting for sampling, time to first pixel was about 0.5-3 seconds, AMD 7950x
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Testing Elon Musk's theory that the UK doesn't have free speech. Hope this helps babe x
A bus stop ad that says "Elon Musk is a bellend. Signed, the UK"
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 06/02/2025
I know it’s a bit uncool to linkedin-post on here but we’re hiring at work, I’ve been looking at quite a lot of showreels, so I wrote up some tips for making a great fx reel #vfx www.linkedin.com/pulse/creati...
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Creating a stand-out Effects reel
As a VFX artist, your showreel is one of the most important tools in the job search process. Whether you’re trying to break into the industry or looking for a new role, having a stand-out showreel can...
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Richard Cope @richardcope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I've recently finished writing my first tutorial for Copernicus in Houdini, building a tri planar projection in cops with opencl. I hope it's useful for someone! richardcope.github.io/tutorials/tu...
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 24/01/2025
And a nice surprise this morning… first show I’ve been on as fx supervisor to be nominated for a vfx Oscar 😊
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Little flashback to our 22nd VES Awards win last year. Getting to meet Gareth physically, seeing Shatner being Shatner, and winning the Award for Outstanding Simulations in a Photoreal feature was brilliant.
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A verrrrrrry long 2hr45min ish chat with @doublejumpacademy.bsky.social on a bunch of shit. I speak so clearly you can watch it at 1.5x speed and it still makes sense! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRfZ...
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Community Hangout with Lewis Taylor - FX TD at WETA FX ( VES Award Winner - The Creator )
YouTube video by DoubleJump VFX Academy
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A lovely in depth chat we @doublejumpacademy.bsky.social a little while ago. www.doublejumpacademy.com/news/inside-...
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DOUBLEJUMP ACADEMY / NEWS - Inside the Mind of Lewis Taylor : From Childhood Sketches to Hollywood Effects
Lewis Taylor, VES Winner and a seasoned Lead FX Technical Director currently shaping magic at DNEG.
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My 2023 reel of stuff. Should really get around to putting the Furiosa work on there too. vimeo.com/910946815
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lewistaylorreel2023
Some work stuff I did
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A re-recording of a SYDHUG presentation on @sidefx.bsky.social Houdini volume optimization techniques. vimeo.com/894363970
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SYDHUG_volumes
A re-recording of the SYDHUG presentation I recently did about Volume. I hope it's useful. Hip file with frustum raserizer and voxel res calc tool. https://oscarsrazor.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
3delight for Houdini custom ocean spectrum texture baking and rendering setup. Bonus clunky Maya example using the exported textures! This is showing the 3dl custom texture format that stores high fidelity detail close to camera and less at depth/outside the frustum. vimeo.com/1016412331
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3delight Houdini Ocean Spectra baking and rendering - bonus Maya rendering too
showing 3delight ocean spectra baking tools
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Some tips and workflow tricks when making complex collision shapes in Bullet RBD @sidefx.bsky.social . These methods help capture difficult convex/concave shapes and we use both convex and VDB spheres as collision options. vimeo.com/1023450976
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Bullet SOP setup - apples - reddit
A walk through of Bullet RBD solver SOP tools, and neato collision objects
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
An interesting challenge recently to convert groom hair card geometry into curves, either as full hair count or to use as a base set of curves to build a groom from. vimeo.com/1047381103
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haircards to curves!
taking game asset hair cards and converting them to nice curves to render, or to use as a base setup to do a full groom on in houdini.
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Lewis Taylor @lewisvtaylor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Guess I'm on here.
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