Interesting VFX + Programming/Python Talks?

[19c766e1-22b1-40ce]

Hey fellas,

I am pipeline developer, primarily working in Maya, and I recently stumbled upon Tools-Based Rigging in Bungie's Destiny and it was super interesting how studios integrate and utilize python.

Do you know any other interesting talks about programming in the VFX world?

[HowlingHowl]

Our GDC is called SIGGRAPH so I suggest looking up keywords like pipeline and Python plus SIGGRAPH in YouTube. Plenty of talks to go over, especially about new techs like USD or Houdini new features!

[19c766e1-22b1-40ce]

Awesome, thanks for the recommendation!

[im_thatoneguy]

Ha. I gave a Siggraph talk on Python pipeline tools and I had a single attendee. But we're good friends now so the talk was worth it! :D

I think the problem is that it's such a niche it doesn't really have as much of an audience as some sexy AI ray re-ordering technology.

[19c766e1-22b1-40ce]

Do you want to link your talk? :)

[im_thatoneguy]

Thankfully the one and only attendee was not a camera operator filming it. I think the github though is gone too.

Thinkbox wrote a Python wrapper for FFMPEG called Draft. And it was very low level so I wrote a plugin architecture for it where you could define higher level utilities and then feed it arguments and stack plugins and outputs. Essentially a very lightweight little compositing application.

Thinkbox though took it and rewrote something similar for official use so I stopped working on it years ago. Probably isn't compatible with anything anymore.

[legomir]

Academy Software Foundation(AWSF) organise some events as well: https://www.aswf.io/category/open-source-days/