As a Technical Director or Tech Leads, one of my roles is to participate on rounds of Technical and visual Research and Development of tools and find new ways to achieve some custom visual effects. My playground is usually based in SideFX Houdini, but i can also create tools (Maxscript) in 3DSMax. Here are some examples of things i did more recently among studies and work.
RnD and Tools
Research and Development of new tools to optimize the production workflow or achieve custom and unusual new visual effects.