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May the pipeline be with you : Coding for the movie industry

This talk will introduce you to the role of a Pipeline Technical Director in the VFX/Animation industry. We will go over who works as Pipeline TD, which kind of software development is done in the movie industry and finally, we will look at some of the tools developed for Avengers: Infinity War.

Given at Women Who Code Python on July 17th 2021

Talk Content

Speakers

• Jessica Koubi: LinkedIn | GitHub
• Bushra Alma: LinkedIn | GitHub

Recording

Recording of the talk is available on YouTube here

Slides

The slides for this talk can be found in the slides directory in various formats.

Case Study Video

The video used for the case study is available on YouTube here

Additional Resources

Some VFX/Animation Open Source Projects

• Alembic: http://www.alembic.io/
• OpenColorIO: https://opencolorio.org/
• OpenImageIO: https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/home
• OpenTimelineIO: https://opentimelineio.readthedocs.io
• Qtpy: https://github.com/mottosso/Qt.py
• ACES: https://github.com/ampas/aces-dev
• Color Transformation Language: https://github.com/ampas/CTL
• Colour Science: https://github.com/colour-science/colour
• OpenEXR: https://www.openexr.com/
• PTex: http://ptex.us/
• PySceneDetect: http://bcastell.com/projects/PySceneDetect/
• REZ: https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez
• QtPyConvert: https://github.com/digitaldomain/QtPyConvert
• Kitsu: https://github.com/cgwire/kitsu
• Cortex: https://github.com/ImageEngine/cortex
• Gaffer: https://github.com/GafferHQ/gaffer
• Tactic: https://github.com/Southpaw-TACTIC/TACTIC
• EDL: https://github.com/guerilla-di/edl
• OpenCollada: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCOLLADA
• AliceVision: https://github.com/alicevision/AliceVision
• OpenMesh: https://github.com/Lawrencemm/openmesh
• Universal Scene Description: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD
• OpenSubdiv: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenSubdiv
• MaterialX: https://github.com/materialx/MaterialX
• Cryptomatte: https://github.com/Psyop/Cryptomatte
• OpenCue: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenCue
• OpenVDB: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb
• Field3D: https://github.com/imageworks/Field3D
• Pimath: https://github.com/madpianist/pimath

Useful Links

• VFX Reference Platform: https://vfxplatform.com/
• Academy Software Fundation: https://www.aswf.io/

List Of Major VFX/Animation Studios

• https://onelightvfx.com/
• https://studiohog.com/vfx-studios/