LAIKA is a stop-motion feature animation studio in Portland, Oregon. Autodesk’s Shotgun project management software has been used to organize and automate aspects of the production of all its feature films over the past 10 years, from Coraline to the forthcoming Missing Link. In this talk, we will present how LAIKA tackles the design and manufacturing of the assets that show up on the big screen, how we use Shotgun software to track our production data (from scheduling to final delivery and beyond), and how we have built an efficient production pipeline using Shotgun as a platform. LAIKA exists at an interesting junction between visual effects and manufacturing, producing physical assets for a digital final product. As we go through our workflows, we will also reflect on the commonalities we have seen in how to create both physical and digital assets efficiently.

Pipelines lie at the heart of all studio workflows, connecting the many moving pieces in a visual effects/animation project. New features in Unreal Engine enable deeper and richer pipeline development capabilities, making it easier than ever to integrate with other production tools like Maya software and Shotgun to provide a seamless artist workflow. Connecting Maya software’s powerful 3D asset-creation capabilities with Unreal Engine’s advanced real-time rendering enables artists to get instant feedback, leading to faster work and better results, all tracked in Shotgun. This session will dive into Unreal Engine’s Python API (application programming interface) and show how to streamline artists' day-to-day work through automation and pipeline intelligence, capitalizing on key technologies like Filmbox and Universal Screen Description for interoperability.

Learn how shotgun is a social design tool for the studio. How do we design for the future with tools of the future?

Join us to get a glimpse of our latest technical preview and learn about how Autodesk envisions Shotgun in the Design Studio.

Let’s take a journey through the growing digital space and the merging of the many industries we once thought were islands all to themselves, looking at manufacturing, product design, e-commerce, construction, TV, film, XR, and the many pieces in between. In order to stay competitive, many of today’s largest organizations are blurring the lines between departments and speeding up the velocity behind the teams that take concept to reality. This class will look at the realities behind today’s market and focus on the groundwork that needs to be laid when scaling a business that leans on a 2D/3D digital environment. Whether you’re working with 3D models in a film, 3D mockups in a manufacturing workflow, 2D concept art in an architectural pipeline, or the product imagery at a furniture house, process and organization can be the key to success. We will dive into a few of the software setups alongside Autodesk’s Shotgun that can help companies succeed.

This session focuses on the tools and workflows used by one of Australia's leading post-production houses, Cutting Edge. Learn how Cutting Edge leverages most of the Autodesk Media & Entertainment portfolio to create world class work efficiently, from occasional 2D animation jobs and storyboarding tasks, Sketchbook Pro enables an incredibly fast way of communicating ideas with sketching and paint tools. A suite of Autodesk content creation tools like Maya, Mudbox and Motion Builder allow our artists to realise the highest quality VFX work, to finishing to the highest standard in Autodesk Flame. Autodesk Shotgun is utilised to increase collaboration and efficiency and connect the team. Hear how new technology and forms of storytelling such as VR, AR and interactive engines will change the future of making entertainment.

Learn about what’s driving Autodesk’s product and platform innovation, and how we’re moving our technology to be ever more cloud-centric. Senior Vice President Chris Bradshaw will kick things off and will be joined by Autodesk product experts, Stephen Hooper and Sarah Hodges, representing manufacturing and AEC. This is your chance to get a firsthand look at what’s new in Fusion 360, BIM 360, Shotgun and Forge.

Learn how Autodesk Shotgun can help you supercharge your pipeline with tools for production management, review and asset management. Shotgun will improve communication and collaboration to assist in managing increasingly complex projects - even when production resources are remote. Shotgun integrates directly with the tools you are using today and is scalable from small to large studios. See why Shotgun will be a key tool in the future of making content

In the last five years Iloura has grown from a single facility employing 30 artists to two facilities that peak at 240 artists.  Over the course of this journey our use of Shotgun has evolved and changed from a basic production management tool to something that is integral to our tech and production pipes and something that provides integrated facility management systems across HR, Operations, Recruiting, Sales, VFX Producing and Finance.  This presentation details the evolution of our use of Shotgun and how Shotgun has been integral to Iloura’s success at all stages of our growth path

This class will show how an innovative customer is looking at the problem of process and data management, and how Shotgun software can help solve these issues. Attendees will learn from a real case study of how an automotive design studio, first in the world to do so, chose Shotgun as the platform to manage its assets and its review-and-approval process. We’ll also discuss how the firm approached the implementation process in terms of organic adoption of the tool through a clear demonstration of value proposition, and learn about key challenges the company experienced during this process. Finally, we’ll talk about some of the benefits that key stakeholders are seeing, and where they see Shotgun contributing more in future.

Let's take a look at how architectural visualization meets VFX with 3ds Max, MotionBuilder and Shotgun. We used Shotgun to help our team collaborate during the crazy-short production timelines, with 3ds Max and Motion Builder to integrate more storytelling and bring our stories to life via motion capture. …Or simply put, rendering 5760 8K frames of NYC city. Yes, the entire city! At Neoscape we have been creating future landscapes for over 24 years, every time striving for higher quality and higher standards. Software comes and goes, it evolves. However, we have always relied on 3ds Max as our workhorse. Every year we think we have achieved the impossible, yet every year we are asked for more and more. In this presentation we will share some of Neoscape’s latest endeavors to date, including those that were technically challenging as well as creative.

Learn about ShotGrid software’s powerful capabilities, including digital asset management features that integrate with Alias software and VRED software to connect digital workflows around the world. Learn how to increase the efficiency of collaboration for creatives by ensuring the availability of multiple versions of digital data, all in the same place, for all studio members. Using ShotGrid helps you save time, creating more opportunities to focus on quality of execution, and enabling designers and creatives to focus more on ideation and innovation. Come and see how ShotGrid can help with the digital transformation in your studio.

ShotGrid was always considered as a collaborative tool used in the Animation & VFX industries but recently we have managed to pitch ShotGrid in newer industries which includes E-Learning & E-commerce. Also industries like games also have started showing interest in ShotGrid to manage production. This session will have success stories of ShotGrid in industries other than just Animation & VFX to manage production.

This class will take a close look at how the immersive planetarium show Signs of Life was produced. We'll discuss how art and science are merged to create extraordinary content through a public private partnership. You'll learn how it was possible through the building of a new animation production studio inside the existing science institution, Griffith Observatory. We'll look at how a producer works from concept to completion, from development to final delivery and everything in-between. The class will show how Autodesk's Shotgun software was implemented at the center of the production studio pipeline and how that enabled the team to create, track, review and render the show.

Большому кораблю в большое плаванье уходить с большой командой, организованной, обученной и где налажены коммуникации. Обучение и внедрение правил никогда не проходят гладко. Крупнейшая студия визуальных эффектов России сумела за короткий срок внедрить новый для себя инструмент и поделится опытом использования системы Autodesk Shotgun для производства графики к последним блокбастерам, вышедшим на экраны как России, так и США.

We believe every content creation organization (CG-VFX) using Flow Production Tracking software in some way faces challenges when transferring data between its offices or with its outsourced vendors and clients. To address these challenges, we designed and developed a UDP-based high-speed application in sync with Flow Production Tracking. FastX is highly reliable for all types of data movements—transfers of scans, work files, final output, multisite/remote renders, CG Files, vendor output, files to DI, disaster safe backup, and final output to clients. Most of the transfers mentioned resemble work related to the CG-VFX industry. But FastX was actually designed to address many industries that deal with high-volume data transfers in daily operations.

The digital creation process has made physical models rare. Today, iterative work around form finding, feature line definition, or design definition convergence has to happen digitally on 2D screens. Imagine if you could connect virtual reality (VR) full-scale visualization in VRED software with 3D modeling workflows in Alias software through custom tools that allow designers to sketch tape lines in VR, giving instant feedback to the 3D modeler in Alias—and use ShotGrid software to capture the sketched tape lines to feed downstream digital-modeling activities. Discover how Autodesk Consulting can help you improve collaborative workflows in your studio, going beyond out-of-the-box product capabilities.