Pipeline Ressources

Ressources for the CG Pipeline workshop

Intro

Animation Film making process by Disney Animation - Overview of the complete process
Pipeline by Illumination - Animation pipeline in one big picture
Les métiers du cinéma d'animation - Animation pipeline explained in a 2 minutes animation video (french)

Awesome CG / VFX Pipeline - List of open-source technologies for the CG or VFX pipeline
ASWF Landscape - Landscape for popular open source projects used in the motion picture industry
VFX Reference Platform
MovieLabs Visual Language Project - Standardized Visual Language to illustrate and share Creative Media Workflow diagrams.
Digital Production Example Library - A library of digital assets curated by the Academy Software Foundation
VFX Job Index - Inventory of VFX professions, by the French section of the Visual Effect Society

CG & VFX Pipeline Course Slides - Slides for the pipeline course (limited to ArtFX)
Blue Sky Studio Technology blog - Great articles about the Blue Sky Pipeline, including "Naming", Gamification in QC, and Web Service Techs
realpython.com - High quality, understandable, in-depth Python tutorials, from beginner to advanced level. Video tutorials are for paid-members, but there are many free written tutorials.
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SIGGRAPH University : "The Digital Production Pipeline" - Big studios (MPC, Dreaworks, Sony Pictures) talk about their pipelines (2013)
The Pipeline Conference - The Pipeline Conference Youtube Channel
Pipeline tech talks - Videos and PDFs (2019-2021) (limited to ArtFX for Copyright reasons)
"CG Pipeline of the Future" - 5 managers and artists chat about their pipelines, Houdini Hive (2019)
USD in Prism Pipeline 2.0 - Presentation of Prism Pipeline Tool at FMX (2021)
Blender/Ftrack custom Pipeline - Talk about Real by Fake's pipeline, by Robert Rioux (2022)
USD in a game pipeline - Presentation of the Remedy USD pipeline (2022)

Meetup Fortiche Pipeline - Presentation of the Fortiche Pipeline (2021, french)
2 pipelines at RAF/RADI - Superprod about USD pipeline "Flow" / Loops & 2 Minutes about Unreal 5 pipeline "Artefact" (2023, french)

rez - Package configuration, build and deployment system for software
Scoop - command-line installer for Windows (type scoop bucket add versions and scoop install python37 to install Python 3.7)

Carbon - Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
termynal.js - A lightweight and modern animated terminal window
Code documentation: industry standard is readthedocs with Sphinx and autodoc, I recommand with markdown and Google style docstring.

Python in maya overview: cmds, pymel, openmaya - Short video with clear overview of the python scripting APIs
Beginning Python for Maya - Free beginner video tutorial on scripting with maya.cmds
Pymel Tutorial - Basic nice pymel turorial (on the legendary Matt Estela Cgwiki)