Career Resources for Job Opportunities and Salary Insights in the Animation / VFX industry

Between internships, freelance gigs and fulltime roles, I’ve been navigating the film industry for the better part of eight years now. Occasionally students and fresh graduates get in touch with me to gain some insights on how to break into the …


Hyperdrive: My approach to pose-based rig caching in Maya

This blog posts covers my approaches on the topic of posed-based rig caching, which I prototyped as a Maya plugin during my TD studies at Filmakademie. I called this project Hyperdrive and recently published the source code of the most recent prototype …


Use Python Wheels with Houdini / Nuke in 2019

During development of our pipeline toolset Scarif, I came across an issue with DCC Applications and certain Python packages. Since we are using quite a few open source Python modules to power our pipeline tools, we resort to a virtual environment in …


Nuke: Environment Variables in Read / Write

In my job as a Pipeline TD I often resort to old school environment variables to make my life easier. Not only are they really easy to work with, they are also a commonly supported way of keeping file paths relative to …