Ahmed Hindy

VFX Pipeline TD

Ahmed Hindy

Cairo, Egypt

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Ahmed Hindy

Pipeline TD / VFX Pipeline Developer

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Technical notes from production.

Practical Houdini, USD, pipeline, and production-tooling notes grounded in real artist and studio problems.

Latest noteAugust 5, 2026
  • Rust
  • Tauri

Building Kitsu Desktop with Tauri: A Pipeline TD's First Look at Rust

What building a small Kitsu desktop client teaches you about Rust and Tauri.

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August 5, 2026
  • Deadline
  • AWS

Deadline Died Slowly. AWS Deadline Cloud Rose in Its Place.

Deadline spent years becoming a maintenance product while AWS built its successor as a managed cloud service. The name survived, but the render farm underneath it changed completely.

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July 13, 2026
  • OpenRV
  • GitHub Actions

Building RV the Easy Way by Abusing Free CI Minutes on Github

How I used OpenRV's existing GitHub Actions workflows to build OpenRV in the cloud.

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July 11, 2026
  • Houdini
  • Python

Setting Multiple Houdini Parameters with hou.Node.setParms()

A practical pattern for configuring Houdini nodes from Python dictionaries, including parameter tuples, validation, and animated parameters.

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Explore my pipeline tools, DCC integrations, and production workflows.

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