Autodesk has a new entry in their Customer Showcase from CIS Vancouver, formerly Rainmaker Visual Effects, talking about how Maya has improved their render pipeline. CIS has worked on Tropic thunder, Changeling, and Twilight, in addition to several TV & commercial projects.
For Dowdeswell, the restructuring of the pipeline will satisfy three overarching objectives. As the company handles such a major transition, Dowdeswell is quick to point to Maya software as the “mainstay of the facility,” and reserves particular praise for the Maya Embedded Language (MEL) scripting capabilities.
“Right now, it’s the greatest thing about Maya for us,” he says. “The extensive coding functionality and flexibility makes it so easy to integrate whatever pipeline we might want to introduce. With MEL scripting, we can customize the Maya interface for individual artists. Artists can then easily and intuitively select important tasks to drive other systems. Customization is huge for us.”
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