Temerity: SIGGRAPH 2009

SIGGRAPH 2009: Temerity Pipeline Users Group

This year in New Orleans at our annual Birds of a Feather meeting we featured presentations from three of the the most innovative studios using Temerity Pipeline in production. Each studio has unique requirements and have used the framework provided by Pipeline to create tools and techniques particular to the types of projects they work on and their own vision on how to structure production workflows. Videos of these presentations along with accompanying slides are available below:

	Mark Visser - Software Director Lumière VFX Mark's presentation focuses on the use of Template Node Builders to bootstrap a new studio where there are open ended project requirements which need to be satisfied with a minimal technical staff and project ramp-up time. Lumière VFX produces visual effects for film. watch video slides

	Wen Tien - Supervisor, Pipeline & Tools Visual Arts Services Group - SCEA Wen explains the workflows and technical innovations used to produce the in-game cinematics for the Uncharted 2 game as well as other studio created tools build using Pipeline. VASG performs a wide variety of services for game develpers for the Playstation platform. watch video slides

	Anthony Carysforth - CG Supervisor Red Vision Ant dicusses their use of traditional Node Builders coordinate the activities of two geographically seperated locations and manage on-demand access contruction of node to represent both artist driven and fully automated tasks. Red Vision produces both visual effects and animated series for television. watch video

	Questions & Answers All three presentors answer questions from the audience in a panel format about their experiences with Temerity Pipeline in production. Moderated by Jesse Clemens of Temerity Software. watch video