Firehawk PDG Tools: Orchestrating VFX assets at Scale | Andrew Graham
83Including major contributions by RSP and previously Stormborn Studios during “The Man in the High Castle”. Firehawk PDG is an open source Houdini package for production being built since PDG became generally available.We consider:
- Orchestrating many versioned assets across shots with minimal resources
- Reproducing output: immutability and idempotence
- Integration with asset databases
- Multiple schedulers
Major contributions by RSP & previously Stormborn Studios during “The Man in the High Castle”. Firehawk PDG Tools is a Houdini package for production.
Andrew Graham has a deep interest in the convergence of automation and tools that allow beautiful images to be realised with efficiency. He is the founder of Open Firehawk and a senior FX TD at Rising Sun Pictures. Over 22 years in computer graphics he has contributed to Hollywood film, motion graphics and architectural visualisation. He previously worked for ILM, Weta Digital, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Image Engine. He has contributed to films such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Dr Strange, Only The Brave, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and The Hunger Games.
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