Grants and Contributions

Complete the design and roll out of a modern USD based VFX Pipeline. This will be the foundation for a future proof, real-time capable, AI ready Holistic VFX Pipeline.

Build on existing in house development work to expand the new USD (Universal Scene Description) based VFX pipeline to include the core departments of Rigging, Animation and Character FX.

This project is as for a VFX Coordinator who is responsible for coordinating artists, schedules, and daily tasks and work in conjunction with VFX Producers and VFX Supervisors.

This Pipeline Upgrade is designed to modernize our production pipeline and increase our capacity to meet rapidly growing demand for VFX content. Through leveraging cloud workflows we will be able to meet our primary goal; to increase capacity. One of the most practical solutions is to hire talented artists from across Canada and worldwide to work remotely. We need to easily provide them with virtual workstations, cloud storage and network connectivity in a cloud region that is geographically close enough for them to overcome the network latency that is inherent in connections over long distances. In addition we need them to be able to seamlessly use our production software and custom too whilst maintaining MPAA security requirements.

Survey relevant cloud technologies and plan the custom development required to upgrade of SpinVFX pipeline to a services oriented architecture. The primary goal of which is enabling the flexible increase of production capacity by leveraging global talent pools.

Given the current high turnover of staff in the entertainment industry, this project is to assist our HR department As such, it requires posting for jobs, review applications in concert with other HR employees, actively search for potential candidates, screen resumes and supplying applicable screening notes to assist managers / supervisors plus scheduling interviews. It will also help to develop and maintain efficient hiring and tracking processes.

The project is the conversion of our existing internal production tools to the emerging open source industry standard called USD (Universal Scene Description https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/index.html ). This is a significant change to our internal tools and processes across all departments and requires substantial software development.

This project is to assist the production team which includes the VFX Producer, Line Producer, Production Manager and Production Coordinator with client postings, outsourcing and various administrative functions associated with the different projects running through the studio. This role should eventually lead to a VFX Coordinator role within the company.