Clear Menser kleer001 · technical artist & pipeline builder
Available for contract
IDENT-1 Clear Menser Technical Artist · Pipeline Builder

Clear Menser Technical artist & pipeline builder (kleer001)

Work AI-assisted tools for DCC software — Blender, Houdini, Nuke, Natron, After Effects.

Method Architecture, domain knowledge, and taste are mine. Implementation leans heavily on Claude; I don't pretend otherwise.

Reach kleer001code@gmail.com
github.com/kleer001
open to contract work.

SHT-00 · SITE PLAN Available for contract
ELEV E-1 galapagos3 Live · Evolutionary
Scale: NTS
A-01

DCC + AI tools

The distinctive lane
Key Plan · MCP Quartet One bet, four targets

Model Context Protocol servers for Blender, Houdini, Nuke, and Natron

Four MCP servers that expose each application's Python API as structured tools an LLM can call directly. The Nuke and Houdini builds add a persistent memory layer, CLAUDE.md behavioral rules, BM25-based RAG over a growing best-practices file, and bidirectional events — so the assistant gets smarter the more you use it, instead of starting from scratch each session. blender-mcp surfaces 175 tools across 25 subsystems, houdini-mcp 166, nuke-mcp 57.

blender-mcp 175 tools · 25 subsystems Blender — geometry, shading, animation, rigging, compositing, VSE. github.com/kleer001/blender-mcp ↗ houdini-mcp 166 tools · 30,000+ searchable docs SideFX Houdini — CLAUDE.md behavioral rules, bidirectional events. github.com/kleer001/houdini-mcp ↗ nuke-mcp 57 tools · NukeX gated tools Foundry Nuke — discovery, headless mode, Skills for multi-step workflows. github.com/kleer001/nuke-mcp ↗ natron-mcp First Natron MCP Natron — open-source compositor. Same MCP surface, free tool. github.com/kleer001/natron-mcp ↗
Python · MCP · FastMCP · DCC APIs Shared patterns across 4 DCCs · destructive-tool guards in code
usd_mcp_master OpenUSD

usd_mcp_master

“I deleted it and it's still there.” “I changed the value and nothing happened.” Both are silent USD composition failures. This walks the composition stack and says which file is winning, what your edit lost to, and where an edit has to go to win. MCP server for agents, usd-explain CLI for people. Local-only, read-only unless you enable writes.

Python · OpenUSD · MCP repo ↗
image_gen One GPU

image_gen

Local image and video generation on one 24 GB GPU, driven by a Claude Code agent over MCP and ComfyUI's HTTP API. Flux, SDXL, Kontext and 14B video models across five pinned ComfyUI environments sharing one model directory. You describe the shot; the agent picks the model, the LoRA and the workflow.

Python · ComfyUI · MCP repo ↗
A-02

DCC tools

Tools for humans
houdini_remote_render Portable

houdini_remote_render

Digital assets plus cross-platform bootstrap scripts that package a Houdini scene into a USDZ and ship it to a render host without manual rigging. Designed to survive being handed to a non-TD.

houdini remote render logo
HDA · Python · USDZ repo ↗
funkworks Pipeline story

funkworks

Pain points mined from artist forums → Claude-classified into solvable problems → shipped as free addons: ten so far, seven for Blender and three for Houdini. The meta-pipeline is the product, not any single plugin — a reproducible path from “people complain about X” to “here is a tool that fixes X”.

funkworks mascot
Python · Blender · Houdini · Claude site ↗repo ↗
shot-gopher Opinionated

shot-gopher

Automated VFX ingest. Footage in; first-pass depth maps, roto, clean plates, camera solves, human matchmove and 3D reconstruction out, on Video Depth Anything, SAM3 and COLMAP. The workflow is deliberately destructive: each stage replaces the last. For one-person and small-team pipelines where speed beats reversibility.

shot-gopher mascot
Python · ML · VFX repo ↗
A-03

LLM & agent tooling

Procedural text, harnesses, skills
Text_Loom ★ 23

Text_Loom

Node graph for procedural editing of text with LLMs, with five front ends: TUI, GUI, REPL, API and batch. Nodes query local LLMs, loop, section text by pattern and transform it by parameter — text flows from one node to the next. Its absurdist sibling, Salad_Loom, wires up word salad, N+7 poetry and Markov mashups the same way.

Python · node graph · local LLM repo ↗Salad_Loom ↗
Claude Code skills Seven skills

Claude Code skills

  • /bob — hands a long session off to a fresh one
  • /bud — graduates a subdirectory into its own repo, history intact
  • /cap — commits and pushes only what Claude changed
  • /karen — design-quality review: SOLID, DRY, YAGNI
  • /ratchet — nudges, then blocks, near the 5-hour usage limit
  • /repo-digest — your git work across repos as a three-view HTML report
  • /copy — checks public copy: is it true, can the reader parse it
Claude Code · prompt design One job per skill
meta_theory ★ 7

meta_theory

Six copy-paste prompts, plus Claude Code skills, that make an LLM lay out how to learn a field before you build in it: what to learn in what order, the foundation under it, and a check on whether you've got ahead of it.

Prompts · Claude Code repo ↗
ccwork Desktop

ccwork

Qt desktop app for running Claude Code across many repos: one window, a sidebar of repos, real embedded terminals, and a live alerts panel fed by Claude Code's Stop and Notification hooks.

Python · Qt · Claude Code repo ↗
bird_brain Voice

bird_brain

Terminal voice copilot for Linux. Keeps a rolling transcript of both sides of a call, tagged [me] and [them], and routes questions to two Claude lanes on separate hotkeys: a fast one for “what do I say now”, a deep one that searches and verifies.

Python · speech · Claude repo ↗
A-04

Games & experiments

Side quests that taught something
galapagos3Reference: Karl Sims

galapagos3

Rust + wgpu evolutionary art in the Karl Sims lineage. Genomes drive procedural images; a fitness pass (manual and automated) selects what lives into the next generation.

Rust · wgpu · evolutionary artsite ↗repo ↗
Browser instrumentsWeb Audio

Browser instruments

drone_flute_synth: an endless flute, drone and percussion band whose melody grows from motif transformations, not random walks. dub_synth: a dub techno engine you perform like a mixer. music_loom is the workbench built from what the two taught.

JS · Web Audioflute ↗dub ↗music_loom ↗
parts_discoSeek & find

parts_disco

A yard full of look-alikes — cars, fish, boats — painted so no two touching shapes share a colour. Find every copy of the one you were shown. The catch: four of each set of twelve are the same shape underneath.

JS · browserplay ↗repo ↗
finding_numbersAudio only

finding_numbers

A liminal horror maze you navigate by ear. A shortwave number station reads digits through the static; a new digit is the only sign a turn was right. Sixteen levels. Needs sound.

JS · Web Audioplay ↗repo ↗
passtallyTribute

passtally

Browser-based tribute to the Passtally board game. Click-and-drag tiles, pass-counting, the expected edges.

JS · browserplay ↗repo ↗