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The importance of having an efficient pipeline

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Having both worked at small and large production facilities, one can not stress enough the importance of having a well set up pipeline. Earlier this year the company I work for undertook the gigantic task of delivering more than 750 shots for Walt Disney’s latest feature film. See IMDB.
Story telling aside, the more interesting aspect [...]

MEL: Find and edit the source of a procedure

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

The following script opens a MEL file in a text editor by checking where queried procedure is stored. As an example Notepad is used for Windows and Nedit for Linux.
Usage:
edit “procname”
Limitations:
The script only finds global procedures that have already been sourced

global proc edit( string $file ) {

    string $result = `whatIs $file`;

    string [...]

MEL: Setting the value of a Slim attribute

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Setting the value of a Slim attribute, from MEL, requires a bit more overhead compared to the normal Maya attribute. The following example shows how it can be done.

string $palette = `slimcmd slim FindPalette “MYPALETTE”`;

string $all = `slimcmd $palette GetAppearances`;

string $shaders[];

tokenize( $all, " ", $shaders );

 

for ( $s in $shaders ) {

    string $attr [...]

Only in Soho

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

I saw this sign the other day when walking through Soho.
Everyone has the right to a little bit of privacy I guess…

Oscar In Da House

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

I don’t want to brag or anything, but I had the honour to hold the Oscar for approximately 53 seconds in a rare photo opportunity. This was for the work undertaken by Cinesite on the Golden Compass movie.
How coOol is that?!
Hmm… ok maybe not that cool, but at least I now know that it’s not [...]

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