Yesterday The Pipeline Conference (TPC) was thrilled to run the 7th annual Pipeline Awards. This was the first time TPC hosted the awards and it was a ton of fun. Spreading knowledge about great pipeline work and recognizing those who advance the art of pipeline is central to the TPC mission. A huge congratulations to this yearโ€™s three winners.

We are looking forward to continuing the tradition next year.

Pipeline Tool Award Winner: Pyblish by Marcus Ottosson

Pyblish is a free, open-source (LGPL) framework written in Python that brings test-driven development to visual effects and triple-A game creation, hosted on GitHub.

Overview video for Pyblish
Pipeline Tool Award Winner

Pyblish is designed to unify artists, platform and software under a single publishing mechanism. Written in cross-compatible pure-Python 2 and 3, Pyblish runs wherever Python runs (and in places where it does not).

Pipeline Hero Award Winners: Fran Benjamin and Alexis Casas

This yearโ€™s award committee was excited to surprise TPCโ€™s own Fran Zandonella Benjamin and Alexis Casas with this yearโ€™s Pipeline Hero award. Fran and Alexis have devoted huge amounts of their time to growing a worldwide pipeline community, through area meet ups, the SIGGRAPH  Global Pipeline BoFs, and now through The Pipeline Conference. Their commitment to the pipeline community has created a way for us all to gather together and share what we know.

Fran Zandonella Benjamin
Alexis Casas
Pipeline Hero Award Winners

Congratulations Fran and Alexis!

Thanks to everybody who attended!

A big thanks to all of you who attended this yearโ€™s awards and to Den Serras for MCโ€™ing the event. We hope you had fun and were inspired to nominate your favorite pipeline tools and heros for next yearโ€™s awards!

Dennis Serras (MC for TPC 2020 Pipeline Awards)

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