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The shotgun pipeline toolkit: productizing and democratizing production pipelines

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This talk presents the motivations and goals for developing the Shotgun Pipeline Toolkit (Toolkit), a platform for building, customizing, and evolving production pipelines. We cover the challenges of developing a product that is valuable for studios of all types and sizes, supports common operating systems, and is easy to use; all while providing the flexibility and customizability required by creative studios. We will show the evolution of Toolkit from concept to release and the lessons learned trying to build pipeline components traditionally found only in studios with large development budgets. Finally, we look at recent work to reduce the barrier to entry to Toolkit as a step towards democratizing pipeline.

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    DigiPro '17: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Production Symposium
    July 2017
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    1. digital content creation
    2. framework
    3. platform
    4. production pipeline
    5. shotgun
    6. shotgun toolkit
    7. workflow

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    • (2024)Building a scalable Animation Production Reporting FrameworkProceedings of the 2024 Digital Production Symposium10.1145/3665320.3670986(1-6)Online publication date: 24-Jul-2024
    • (2022)Orchestrating Production Processes with Cloud Native PipelinesProceedings of the 2022 Digital Production Symposium10.1145/3543664.3543682(1-7)Online publication date: 7-Aug-2022
    • (2018)Cloud-based pipeline distribution for effective and secure remote workflowsProceedings of the 8th Annual Digital Production Symposium10.1145/3233085.3233096(1-8)Online publication date: 11-Aug-2018

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