Houdini HIVE:
Benjamin Sugar, bEpic GmbH, Senior FX Artist

What to expect:
Learning Houdini is a wild ride of trial and error—breaking things, making mistakes, and slowly unlocking its endless possibilities. Through my journey with Houdini, I discovered how experimenting and deconstructing complex problems sparks creativity and reveals surprising connections to the natural world. Beyond FX, I’ll be making a case for Houdini as an educational tool—showing how its ability to visualize math and science can help students explore and understand the world in a whole new way.

About the speaker:
Benjamin Sugar is a Hungarian-born visual artist and motion designer, primarily working in the field of visual effects for feature film and advertisement. His artistic practice is centered around the creative use of technology, which includes 3D design, proceduralism and audio-visual composition. Since settling in Berlin in 2015 he began to pursue a career in visual effects as an FX artist with a focus on natural phenomena, such as fluids, fire and soft-body simulations. He has worked for a number of leading german VFX studios, contributing to high-profile feature films and episodics and is currently the Senior FX artist for bEpic Studio in Berlin.

Access:
This session is included in your Full Pass / Day Ticket but requieres a sign up. Sign up is available from April 16th exclusively via the OFFF app.