Patrick Wolf Head of Pipeline Pixomondo

Challenges in a global environment  Pixomondo: 12 branches, 660+, 5 countries, 6 zones, 24/7  Challenges: tracking distributed projects exchanging data ensure usage of standards and tools bridge environmental differences (software, hardware) deploying tools utilize remote resources not drowning in tickets! © 2013 Pixomondo

Solutions  Naming conventions: file, object, farm, shotgun …  Prioritize on base tool set: 3dsMax, Maya, Nuke, Shotgun, Deadline, RV  Communication platform wiki, helpdesks  Infrastructure: shared APIs for TDs to build on mount points, file structures, caches  Enrolling software vendors to evolve products for production needs © 2013 Pixomondo

Historic Tool Deployment 0.1 Deploy locally TestZipTransferUnzipTest x12 branches x… fixing individual issues © 2013 Pixomondo

Tool deployment 2.0  SVN as Version Control System  Tracks changes and provides detailed log  Dev: Engineer/TD work/debug locally  Bin: Released tools, up to date copy checked out in each branch  Artist / Farm alike depend on Bin  Source code as asset - indexed and searchable © 2013 Pixomondo

Tool deployment 2.0 SVNdevTDNukeMaxMayaEngineerTransfer Proxy Generation Shotgunbin tools / deadline LAXYTOFRASHA… x1 commit © 2013 Pixomondo

Historic - Remote Render 0.1 Zip Scene Upload > Download Unzip Prep Farm Env. SubmitRender Remote Login QC Frame Zip Upload> Download Unzip QC Job © 2013 Pixomondo

Solution - Remote Render 2.0  User Transparent submit, watch and check locally  Engine - in the background Submission per layer, frame bracketing, naming, dependency collection, transfer, mapping properties, remote env. prep, rendering, notifications, transfer on frame completion, frame status sync, job cleanup  Provide scalability via SQS  Distribute one job over multiple farms  Future: Auto select farm based on criteria © 2013 Pixomondo

Remote Render 2.0 for Artists SubmitRender QC Frame QC Job © 2013 Pixomondo

References  Aspera:  Celery:  Deadline:  DocFetcher:  SVN server:  SVN client:  Syncovery:  UFTP  © 2013 Pixomondo