Editorial often becomes one of our big bottlenecks during the end of production. Between trying to keep the clients and creative directors happy and pushing out new shot timings and new cuts; it's really no surprise editorial often feels overwhelmed. Thankfully we finally had the time to help do ...
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How can we keep our animators happy? A question we asked ourselves several times as we've gone through the different iterations of how we wanted playblasting and publishing to go. The key point we learned is that simplicity is more important than flexibility. This was our primary goal when ...
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File structure is something we have struggled with and changed a number of times as our needs changed and grew. Our most recent iteration involved a lot of planning and discussion of the future to try and create something we wouldn't have to often change. The most difficult thing ...
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XGen was easily the most difficult to integrate into our pipeline. We had to figure out the best way to allow XGen collections to transfer between assets and shots, it had to be Perforce friendly, it had to take into account Arnold, it had to be compatible with our render ...
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My name is Craig Barnett and I'm a full time Pipeline Technical Director working in the film industry. I graduated from the Visual Effects program at Savannah College of Art and Design back in 2013. Every day I continue to pursue my passion of developing efficient and intuitive tool sets, creatively solving technical problems, researching new technologies, and making an overall more enjoyable workplace for my fellow artists. In my free time I enjoy building computers, dabbling in new programming languages, and playing with new technology like home automation.