Overview

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Weekend Render

• Official rendering tool for director and supervisor reviews, as well as vendor deliveries, separate from Prism and Maya.
• Led the development of the tool and custom APIs, incorporating feedback from the TD supervisor and team members as needed.

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Why Weekend Render? : This tool was originally made to run renders on weekends when the render farm was idle, but it later became an official rendering tool.

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Impact

Designed and implemented workflow processes for supervisors and rendering artist(Houdini), improving efficiency and collaboration.

Environment

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Based on

• Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx)
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Flow

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USD

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Custom PyQt5 API for UI

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Custom Render API for Tractor

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Features

• Shot list loading based on Flow, omitting excluded shots.
• Creation of Renders and Takes.
• Options for Render and Take creation (Auto Make Take, Auto Make Mov, etc.).
• Core Render options (Increment, Priority, After date/time, Frame FML).