The Role of APEX, Solaris and USD in a Small Studio Environment

If you are curious about how we’ve been using APEX/KineFX and USD in Solaris take a look at this article I did with SideFX Software. It’s a fun behind the scenes look at how we work at Frame48. From hip templates, the way we structure our shot’s usd layers, dealing with FX caches in Solaris, and how we decided to extract animated APEX data to apply onto our USD assets. Our pipeline has gone through some huge improvements since the last time we did our HIVE talk and Ignite Worskhop, so this was a nice way to remind myself of all the progress we’ve achieved so far.