NDLI: Large scale VFX pipelines ( SIGGRAPH '17 )

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Bringing Lou to life: a study in creating Lou

Evolving complexity management on "the LEGO Batman movie"

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction

Gears of War 4: custom high-end graphics features and performance techniques

Automated light probes from capture to render for Peter Rabbit

Muscle simulation for facial animation in Kong: Skull Island

The art and technology of hair simulation in Disney's Moana

Behind the scenes of VFX in the Middle East & Syria: "in art we trust"

The ocean and water pipeline of Disney's Moana

Importance sampling of many lights with adaptive tree splitting

Gears of War 4: creating a layered material system for 60fps

Moana: crashing waves

Evolution of AR in Pokémon go

Director-centric virtual camera production tools for rogue one

Programmable buildings: architecture as an interaction interface powered with programmable matter

Interactive environment creation with sprout

Field trip to Mars

Large scale VFX pipelines

The making of Google earth VR

Building moana's kakamora barge

Optical flow-based face tracking in The Mummy

Learning light transport the reinforced way

Optimizing VR for all users through adaptive focus displays

Revving up a storm: a talk on creating Jackson storm

From VFX project management to predictive forecasting

Moana: Foundation of a Lava Monster

HDR TV output and lighting Gears of War 4

Masquerade: fine-scale details for head-mounted camera motion capture data

High performance animation in Gears of War 4

Hairy effects in Trolls

Moana: performing water

The iray light transport simulation and rendering system

DreamWorks fabric shading model: from artist friendly to physically plausible

Production ready MPM simulations

How VR changes the sense of ourselves & reality

Smash and grab: off the rails filmmaking at Pixar

Concept through creation: establishing a 3-D design process in the footwear industry

A hybrid approach to procedural tree skeletonization

Dear angelica: breathing life into VR illustrations

Cloudy with a chance of rendering

Building an animation pipeline for VR stories

PackIT: animating complicated character groups easily

A new contour method for highly detailed geometry

Novel algorithm for sparse and parallel fast sweeping: efficient computation of sparse signed distance fields

A case study on raytracing-in-the-loop optimization: focal surface displays

The role of hand-drawn animation in Disney's Moana

Animation collaboration with depth compositing

Moana: geometry based disco ball lighting for tamatoa's lair

Procedural photograph generation from actual gameplay: snapshot AI in FINAL FANTASY XV

Just-in-time, viable, 3d avatars from scans

Handling scene constraints for pose-based caching

Modeling vellus facial hair from asperity scattering silhouettes

The water effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales

Precomputed multiple scattering for light simulation in participating medium

Fast automatic level of detail for physically-based materials

Compact iso-surface representation and compression for fluid phenomena

A new (virtual) reality at the New York Times

LAIKA's digital big boards

Resynthesizing reality: driving vivid virtual environments from sensor networks

Build your own procedural grooming pipeline

Two novel approaches to visualizing internal and external anatomy of the cardiac cycle with a windowed virtual heart model

Flexible pipeline for crowd production

Visual effects for VR

Populating the crowds in Ferdinand

Lighting up the smurfs enchanted forest

Dance motion analysis and editing using hilbert-huang transform

Beyond foveal rendering: smart eye-tracking enabled networking (SEEN)

A fantasy based on reality the art of Final Fantasy XV

Rendering the darkness: glimpse on the LEGO Batman movie

Building detailed fractal sets for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"

Circular separable convolution depth of field

Proxy clouds for RGB-D stream processing: an insight

The eyes have it: comprehensive eye control for animated characters

Racing to the finish line: effects challenges on Cars 3

Double hierarchies for efficient sampling in Monte Carlo rendering

Designing look-and-feel using generalized crosshatching

Localized guided liquid simulations in bifrost

VarCity - the video: the struggles and triumphs of leveraging fundamental research results in a graphics video production

FurCollide: fast, robust, and controllable fur collisions with meshes

Beyond "cosmos laundromat": blender's open source studio pipeline

Artist-driven crowd authoring tools

Nature-based hybrid computational geometry system for optimizing the interior structure of aerospace components

Headset removal for virtual and mixed reality

Large scale VFX pipelines ( SIGGRAPH '17 )

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Israel, Justin Chambers, Matthew Wright, Andy
Abstract	To ensure peak utilization of hardware resources, as well as handle the increasingly dynamic demands placed on its render farm infrastructure, WETA Digital developed custom queuing, scheduling, job description and submission systems - which work in concert to maximize the available cores across a large range of non-uniform task types. The render farm is one of the most important, high traffic components of a modern VFX pipeline. Beyond the hardware itself a render farm requires careful management and maintenance to ensure it is operating at peak efficiency. In WETAs case this hardware consists of a mix of over 80,000 CPU cores and a number of GPU resources, and as this has grown it has introduced many interesting scalability challenges. In this talk we aim to present our end-to-end solutions in the render farm space, from the structure of the resource and the inherent problems introduced at this scale, through the development of Plow - our management, queuing and monitoring software. Finally we will detail the deployment process and production benefits realized. Within each section we intend to present the scalability issues encountered, and detail our strategy, process and results in solving these problems. The ever increasing complexity and computational demands of modern VFX drives WETAs need to innovate in all areas, from surfacing, rendering and simulation but also to core pipeline infrastructure.
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Ending Page	2
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450350082
DOI	10.1145/3084363.3085021
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2017-07-30
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Scheduling Queuing Distributed computing Pipeline
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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