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Academy Award for OpenColorIO

Academy Award for OpenColorIO

At this year’s Academy Scientific And Technical Achievement Awards show, OpenColorIO was among 19 other winners. If you haven’t heard of OpenColorIO, it’s a color management framework that makes managing color for cinema and video much more …

Open Source @ Imageworks

Open Source @ Imageworks

Sony Pictures Imageworks announced our first 5 open source projects today. We’re still getting some of the code online, but the initial reception has been exciting. Hopefully it’s just the start of something big. Additional coverage at Variety, …

Convert a 3d point to 2d Screen Space in Maya

Convert a 3d point to 2d Screen Space in Maya

Very often you want to find the 2d coordinates on the screen for a given 3d point. Here’s a little mel script that knows the projection math and takes care of generating the data in a “raw channel text file” format. From here, it’s easy to generate …

Renderman on Film: With Examples from Stuart Little

Renderman on Film: With Examples from Stuart Little

In 2002 I was invited back to present in the Renderman course. This time, I used examples from Stuart Little 2 and walked through the then-current visual effects and animation pipeline. This paper served as a general overview of the techniques of the …

Renderman Course: Fur in Stuart Little

Renderman Course: Fur in Stuart Little

In 2000, I was invited to help teach a Siggraph session on Renderman. I was able to present the work of many people at Sony Imageworks who helped bring our furry hero to life. Stuart Little was the first CG character to lead in a live-action movie, …

Stuart Little Effects Animation

Stuart Little Effects Animation

The evolution of the first Stuart Little film was a very interesting process to participate in as we created the star of the film to fill the empty mostly photographic plates. This was one of the very first times a CG character held a major role in a …