to promote, elevate and evolve VFX/CG pipelines
The Pipeline Awards recognize excellence in the development and integration of CG pipelines. The tools and people that save loads of time and mix creative genius with a clear grasp of how to make a laborious process easier and faster. The 8th Annual Pipeline Awards ceremony was hosted by the comedian Andy Erikson, with moderator …
We are happy to announce our new member to our social media presence, the YouTube channel. Feel free to subscribe to the channel and also share with your friends in colleagues in the VFX/Animation industries. At this moment this channel contains video recordings from last year’s (2020) TPC and Pipeline Awards only. To watch this …
It is said, it takes a village to make a movie. The same applies to getting a conference together. Day 1 of the DigiPro + The Pipeline Conference was a memorable one and the chairs, committee members, and volunteers are a happy bunch. Here is a picture from the end of day 1 check-in of …
We have been slowly moving towards more and more people working remotely, but one of the legacies of COVID and lockdown was that it pushed us more rapidly into remote working which had for a long time thought to be impossible by studio heads, if we wanted to be able to protect their IP. How …
With the majority of workers working remotely, security has become a concern like never before. In this talk Spencer Stephens shares MovieLab’s research into cybersecurity, production technology and cloud workflows. July 28th, 12:00 -12:40 PDT – Introduction to MovieLabs. Who we are. What we do.– The MovieLabs 2030 vision of the future of media production– …
Deep learning requires the use of a huge amount of training data to develop and test a successful neural network model that generalizes well. Several public datasets are already available for different kinds of object recognition and autonomous cars, but none exist for aeronautic applications. We present a data-driven pipeline for the creation of synthetic …
When it comes to cloud services one has to beware of marketing hyperbole, and navigate the large array of services providers offer. We will focus on a few essential topics to try and flatten the learning curve for pipeline developers interested in getting started with the cloud. July 27th, 14:20 -15:20 PDT As a pipeline …
This talk focuses on how Wizart Animation completely transformed their pipeline and moved their development towards USD, evolving their in-house USD editor and using its extensibility to make an animated feature. July 27th, 10:40 – 11:20 PDT As an indie animation studio for Netflix’s Secret Magic Control Agency, we completely transformed our pipeline and moved …
Development workflow often succumbs to inefficiencies and neglect over the long-term, therefore many studios realize the value of DevOps, and this talk will take a look at some of the DevOps practices at a few studios and the ROI they provide. Tuesday, July 27th 13:20 – 14:00 PDT Pipeline developers are often exclusively focused on …
A panel of women currently working in pipeline at major companies like, ILM, Disney Animation, and MPC, discuss what it means to be a woman working in pipeline. July 27th, 12:00 pm – 12:40 pm Learn more about our panelists and their colleagues by reading the articles below. https://www.moving-picture.com/news/inside-mpc-global-pipeline-team https://d23.com/disney-animation-makes-womens-history-while-making-raya-and-the-last-dragon/ Link to full schedule for …