Behind the final frame: tools built, problems solved, and the thinking that shapes the work.

Tools

Open-source tools built from production frustration. Each one solves a problem I hit more than twice.

The neural filaments between AI and Houdini — WebSocket bridge with persistent project memory.

Lighting, texturing, and compositing workflows for Houdini — Aurora, Spectrum, and Prism.

Deterministic inference for Nemotron 3 in ComfyUI — same seed, same output, every time.

Template scenes for common lighting scenarios: product, portrait, automotive, architectural. Coming soon.

A bridge from Claude Code to Unreal Engine without MCP — stability over hype.

The thinking behind the work. Case studies, research, and the technical decisions that shaped the final frame.

Fifteen rounds of director notes on fur creatures that had to feel real enough to share frames with live actors.

Experiments in conditioning generative AI on explicit lighting direction and quality.