Chris

Exploring #VATs more and more these days. Wrote my own #OSL shader for #Arnold so we can actually utilise them directly in the render engine itself. I am excited to stress test it more, and see how reliable they are!

Some shots from the #Siggraph 'Create without Limits' event in #CapeTown this week. Super interesting talks from some of our local #animation companies!

Time to knock off early! Heading to the #Siggraph 'Create without Limits' event in #CapeTown tonight. Always good to network with the #Animation industry in SA. We dont do it enough!

Spent the afternoon building an hda to automate the fx dept USD exports, from SOPs, following the #ASWF standards. This is going to help lookdev massively as now all assets follow the same structure 💪

#OpenUSD #Houdini #SOPs

The fools at Incredible Connection just lost a sale from me! I'm not going to be forced to join your loyalty system just to get your special offer price! They just wanting to build a user database. I wanted to support a brick & mortar store, but I guess I will order it online now.

#DataHarvesting #SouthAfrica #ThierLoss #IncredibleCorruption

Nailed it! 💪 Added an export script to our publish tools to convert a #bifrost graph to a clean unseralised #arnold #standin file! Handles point_position, scale, orientation, point_frame and instancing of animated #standins
This allows us to deliver clean repathable assets down pipe and to the external studio!

#python #maya #pipelinetd #vfx

So this weeks focus was user testing the edit pipeline/tools. We've been using pymiere - https://github.com/qmasingarbe/pymiere which has been pretty successful tbh. Edit is starting to feel nicely like a first class citizen in our supported DCCs using #OTIO

When not testing edit, I have been hard at work writing code to export our #OpenUSD models so that they perfectly layer in with lookdev. This means I have successfully decoupled LD & MDL usd version files.

#Pipeline #PipelineJournal #Houdini #USD #python