Prism Pipeline

Last month we had the exciting opportunity to speak together with Expanse at the FMX - Film & Media Exchange and talk about the latest updates in Prism. The recording is now available in case you missed it. Fredrik Fottland 🔜 ANNECY, Richard Frangenberg, Eilef Sandnæs, Konstantin Schorer and Sigurd Sørlie presented a variety of different workflows and shared tips and tricks for working with USD across Houdini and Maya. We showed a bunch of upcoming features like: - a first glimpse of the new Prism ComfyUI integration - a Prism MCP server to automate complex workflows - multishot workflows for Houdini Slapcomps and Nuke - an OpenTimelineIO integration across multiple DCCs We also covered recent additions to Prism like ingest and delivery tools as well as new scene-building workflows. To bring all of this into the perspective of an actual studio production, the team from Expanse went into a deep dive of the VFX workflows for the movie "A Mouse Hunt for Christmas". Find the full presentation here on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/guEPdASt

Hello network, I recently put together an open-source plugin for the Prism pipeline called the Prism Dependency Graph. It provides a visual graph view for dependency relations within Prism. I shared this recently in the Prism Discord, but I am also posting here because I'm looking for anyone interested in helping to maintain it. If you work with Prism or pipeline development and want to contribute to an open-source tool, feel free to take a look. You can find the repository and code here: https://lnkd.in/ddJEVVGx #PrismPipeline #PipelineTD #OpenSource #Python #GitHub

We have a new update for the Slack plugin of Prism Pipeline, v2.1.2! The update features more updates to the Community Edition of the plugin, but both feature substantial changes to the overall code. Here are some of the new features in the Studio and Community Editions: -- Studio -- - USD LOP state support - Code Refactor/Stability -- Community -- - Initial After Effects Support - View in Slack - Streamlined Package Installation - Initial Logging - Artist Export State notification - PRISM_SLACK_CONFIG_PATH Environment variable - Code Refactor/Stability Feel free to check it out below! https://lnkd.in/g_gUzcfJ Updated Changelog for v2.1.2: https://lnkd.in/gksjupmU

Today we want to share the first teaser of our upcoming ComfyUI integration with you. This will allow studios to integrate new AI workflows seamlessly into their existing studio pipelines. We showed a preview of the ComfyUI integration last month at FMX - Film & Media Exchange. The full recording will be available soon. Here's a summary of the features of the ComfyUI plugin: - save, load, and version your ComfyUI workflows using Prism - load images, videos, and 3D assets from other DCCs into ComfyUI - export generated images and videos back into the project to bring them into other DCCs - run ComfyUI workflows on Deadline - integrate with the Prism Execution Graph to automate the triggering of ComfyUI workflows - run workflows locally or in the ComfyUI Cloud In the video, we also show an interesting use case of the ComfyUI plugin: After rendering a few shots in Houdini, we use the rendered images as references for a new shot. In ComfyUI, we apply the lighting and materials from the existing shots to a playblast of the new shot. The ComfyUI workflow is triggered automatically after creating a playblast in Houdini and is submitted as a Deadline job. The resulting video can give us an idea of how the shot will look in the sequence before rendering a single frame of it in Houdini. This is just one example, but with the vast amount of custom nodes available in ComfyUI, there are no limits to what you can create. The ComfyUI Prism plugin will be available in Early Access soon.

We're getting ready for FMX - Film & Media Exchange next week! Together with Expanse we'll talk about automated pipelines, share new workflows around OpenUSD, integrating AI into VFX workflows and show you some exciting upcoming Prism updates. Don't miss our presentation on Tuesday, May 05, 14:30 Raum Reutlingen at the FMX in Stuttgart. Richard Frangenberg and Konstantin Schorer will present from the Prism team and from the Expanse team Fredrik Fottland, Eilef Sandnæs and Sigurd Sørlie are joining us. Check out the details here: https://lnkd.in/g4cScxzv We'll be around the whole week and looking forward to great chats, drinks and another fun FMX! #FMX2026 #PrismPipeline #Expanse #VFX SideFX Software Foundry Autodesk Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

Heading to Stuttgart next week to share the stage with Richard Frangenberg, Konstantin Schorer and my pipeline-team at FMX - Film & Media Exchange. Premiering our "Fast Forward" feature film teaser, presenting Expanse, talking pipeline, and looking forward to seeing a lot of familiar faces. Find me if you'll be there.

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you're having a great day ⭐ We’re so excited to see the trailer for Hungry by James Nunn and Signature Entertainment UK 🔥 a CG hippo horror - the first of its kind! Our team at Magic Dust 💫 were responsible for the CG hippo, FX water and fire elements, Bayou set extensions and, for designing the hippo model that was also used by the SFX team. Making a low-budget CG hippo movie, with FX water was VERY challenging but we did it thanks to our awesome team of artists, pipeline, devops and systems engineers and architects 🙌 Ahmed Yousry Mahmoud Salah Meena Ibrahim Cale Pugh Karim El-Masry Simon-Pierre Puech Rob Stipp Fabrizia Bonaventura Marco Pileri Adam Guzowski Matthew George Ahmed Shalaby David Fernández Girón Reine Issa Joe M. Stephen Sutcliffe Islam Hussein Mohamed Kamal Sabeed Rahiman Sheik Mansoor G Balaji Mohan Richard Frangenberg Prism Pipeline Liam Offord 👏 Big thanks to Signature Entertainment UK, Ben Jacques and James Nunn 🌟 for the opportunity. Thanks for a fun ride! 🙌 #hungryhippo #hungrymovie #dontmesswithhippos #CGcharacters #FXwater #FX #VFX

Today we released Prism v2.1.2 and it's a big milestone for us! We added a complete new way to configure the Scene Building in Prism, which will save every artist a lot of time, no matter in which DCC they are working. We also added support for Maya 2027, 3ds Max 2027, added support for Houdini Recipes, Slapcomps and much more. Additionally we added a new IO Tools plugin for batch ingestions, version zeros and delivery packages. The Prism Hub is now also supported on Linux and Mac, which makes it easier to install plugins on these platforms. Besides all the new features we put also a lot of effort on the stability and bugfixes in this release. You can download Prism v2.1.2 now on our website: https://lnkd.in/esX34r45

With some plugins I created, you can now have a full open source AI pipeline. To get started, download and install these open source apps: --> Prism Pipeline: An artist-friendly pipeline tool for organizing and automating animation, VFX, and CG project workflows. --> ComfyUI: A node-based interface for designing and running advanced diffusion workflows. --> AI-Toolkit:  An all-in-one training suite for diffusion models that can run as both a GUI and a CLI. Prism Pipeline does not natively support ComfyUI or AI-Toolkit so I created some custom Prism Pipeline plugins for Windows that you can download here from my portfolio site: --> Prism Pipeline ComfyUI Plugin:  https://lnkd.in/g_7HthRY --> AI-Toolkit Pipeline ComfyUI Plugin: https://lnkd.in/gUJ_sGB4 If you have any issues with my plugins, reach out on LinkedIn. I just want to give a big shout out to Richard Frangenberg who created the Prism Pipeline application. I have done some work with Richard and he is a fantastic developer. I have also been using Prism for years and love it. You can say thanks to Richard by subscribing to some of the paid features or get your studio to adopt Prism as their pipeline.

A new update to the Prism Pipeline Slack plugin is here that brings some new features and some important integrations. Here are some of the new features! - Nuke Support - Initial After Effects Support - Execution Graph Support - Marking an Approval in Slack now assigns them locally in Prism - Leaving Comments in Slack on a published post, leaves them in Prism - Added Sign-out behavior - Initial start to logging for the plugin - Two new environment variables On top of a number of adjustments and enhancements! Feel free to check it out below! https://lnkd.in/g_gUzcfJ Updated Changelog for 2.1.1 https://lnkd.in/gFrV827k