KEYNOTE: Making Movies With Web Applications
summary
Industrial Light & Magic uses web apps to coordinate global VFX pipelines and ships concrete tools: Relay notification service (Django, Postgres, memcache, nginx, Celery) that replaces manual config files and cuts support tickets by giving artists project-level filters evaluated against task attributes; a bulk uploader — from hour to minutes with a React UI and FastAPI/Pydantic GraphQL backend; an editorial dashboard that moves editors off Linux to Mac. Performance is measured with Locust and Prometheus; normalizing rule stacks (users rarely exceed five) improved generation speed.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:33Production Tools
- 2:13The Product Owner and Cycle
- 3:34Python for VFX
- 5:11Web Services for VFX
- 6:47The VFX Process
- 11:16The issues we are trying to solve
- 14:30The Iterative Cycle of VFX
- 18:04Relay Web Service
- 26:55Editorial Dashboard
- 27:46Why Django?
- 28:49Bulk Uploader
- 30:18Where we are going...
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