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ShotGrid - Website - Making a client review link

Using the ShotGrid website

ShotGrid has a system for sending playlists to people who don't have a ShotGrid account, which is...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Website - Creating a playlist

Using the ShotGrid website

Playlists are a handy way of grouping together versions (the preview videos in ShotGrid) so you c...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Website - Making notes

Using the ShotGrid website

Supervisors of course need to give feedback on artist work. All this feedback should be done thro...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Pipeline - General overview

Using our ShotGrid pipeline

Using our ShotGrid pipeline might be a bit intimidating at first as there's a lot you have to rem...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Website - Creating a planning

Using the ShotGrid website

Planning is one of the most import parts of creating great VFX. ShotGrid has some extensive tools...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Website - Creating scenes and shots

Using the ShotGrid website

Created projects show up on nfa.shotgunstudio.com. Clicking on a project takes you to that projec...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Pipeline - Delivery

Using our ShotGrid pipeline

Once all the VFX work is done it's time to return the shots to the editors. We have a tool for th...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Hosting a ShotGrid review session

Viewing space

Our ShotGrid versions can be easily viewed in our viewing room using a program called RV. RV allo...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Pipeline - File management

Using our ShotGrid pipeline

This page shows examples in Nuke, but the same workflows apply to all software you can launch usi...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Pipeline - Opening software

Using our ShotGrid pipeline

When working in our ShotGrid pipeline you should always launch software using the ShotGrid launch...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Pipeline - Version control

Using our ShotGrid pipeline

We use the version control tool (also called Breakdown) to update loaded files to their latest ve...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Software licenses

Available software

All the software we use at school is, of course, properly licensed. This does mean that you might...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Houdini - ShotGrid - Publishing

Houdini in our ShotGrid pipeline

Once you've rendered some frames using the Karma node it's time to publish them. You can also pub...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Using the DMX system

Green screen studio

The green screen studio is equipped with customizable DMX lights. These lights are used to illumi...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Mindfulness Room - Controlling the lights and audio

Mindfulness room

When you step into the mindfulness room the room comes alive with lights and audio. You can contr...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Nuke - What's different at school?

Nuke at school

If you've used Nuke before you'll probably be familiar with the many ways it can be customized an...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Deadline - Online monitoring

Deadline at school

Our Deadline render farm can be monitored online through our monitor website! This is ideal for w...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

ShotGrid - Pipeline - Creating a project

Using our ShotGrid pipeline

The first step in any project that uses our ShotGrid pipeline is to create one using our project ...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Pipeline - To do - Medium difficulty

To-do list

This right here is a list of pipeline tasks that should be relatively doable. Being able to inge...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel

Houdini - ShotGrid - Other pipeline tools

Houdini in our ShotGrid pipeline

Houdini in our ShotGrid pipeline has two other nice features that you should be aware of. Task t...

Updated 1 year ago by Mervin van Brakel