TZJTan Zi Jian

Notes & breakdowns

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Breakdowns, experiments and notes from my work. Mostly Houdini and generative AI video: what holds up in production, what breaks, and how I work around it.

6 min read I Turned Myself Into a K-Drama Lead and Shot a Scene at Windy Hill: Here’s the Full AI Pipeline Seedance 3 min read Playing with Fire: Mastering Nighttime VFX Relighting with AI Kling 7 min read From Houdini to Gen AI: How I Rendered a Film-Grade USS Missouri Ocean Shot in Under 24 Hours HoudiniKling 4 min read Can AI Handle True Physics? Testing Refraction & Dynamic Shadows (Houdini vs. Kling 3.0 vs. Seedance 2.0) HoudiniKlingSeedance 4 min read AI vs. Physics: Can Video-to-Video Models Handle Fluid Refraction and Caustics? HoudiniKlingSeedance 3 min read AI in the VFX Pipeline: Faking a High-Speed Police Chase Kling 3 min read From Greenscreen to a Realistic Urban Environment: A Hybrid AE + AI Workflow Kling 3 min read VFX Breakdown: Changing Youngji’s Red Hair to Black Using AI ComfyUIKling 3 min read The Last-Minute PPL Pivot: Swapping a Car in a Drone Shot with AI & Compositing KlingSeedance 3 min read AI-Driven Apparel: Building a Procedural Colorway & Embroidery Pipeline in ComfyUI ComfyUI