I was lucky enough to compete in the 7 week national student competition BFX to produce a short 30 second animated film for a charity, we took a little bit longer to get everything finished but I’m happy with how it turned out!
My roles included
- Pipeline
- Required me to write Python/Bash based tools to automate rendering tasks, such as handling the uploading of assets to the renderfarm and submitting the job on the farm itself.
- Configure SVN on a network drive and encourage the team to use it as a remote backup/version control system.
- Shading/Lighting TD
- Shader development & look development for the characters/environment.
- Lighting multiple shots.
- Our renderer of choice was Renderman 20.9 (RIS mode).
- Compositing
- Involved pulling in the various render AOVs/LPEs and putting everything together.
- Final grading tweaks.
- Director
This was my first time using Renderman for a full animation; while we did run into some bugs that caused us some pain, I would hope they wouldn’t happen again now I have more experience with it. I had a lot of fun lighting in it 🙂