
The Automated VFX Pipeline
Introduction In the course of the last year I’ve been a part of producing Visual Effects for two feature-length films with each around 100-200 VFX shots as a visual effects artist, supervisor and pipeline TD. To begin with we only had a small amount of ‘automated’ pipeline stuff, so almost everything was written from scratch. To make everyone’s day, including my own, way more fun and productive I set out to write a bunch of scripts and tools to make the repetitive and annoying tasks disappear beneath user interfaces. The following is a presentation of the tools I’ve developed and some background info and about how they work and were made. ...