Articles

In addition to our work with studios we do extensive tests and R&D. We intend to release articles detailing interesting and/or useful findings of the results. If you have any requests or suggestions for future topics feel free to send them our way.

Extending AYON with add-ons

Can AYON be an interesting proposal for a game studio? In this article we tell you how our implementation of Version Control Systems like Git and Plastic went. We put the possibilities offered by AYON to the test.

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A general overview of Vue3 and Tailwindcss 3.4

Vue and Tailwindcss have steadily gained popularity for their simplicity and practical design approach. This article gives a general overview of how they help developers build clean, efficient, and visually consistent web interfaces.

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How to setup Vue3 and Tailwindcss 3.4

For those who are wondering how to set up a project with Tailwindcss 3.4 and Vue3, this will be a short tutorial on how to do so. Let’s get started!

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Using web UI's in Maya

Learn how to integrate Web UIs (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) into any Python application using Qt's QWebEngineWidgets and QWebChannels for seamless backend communication. This guide includes a minimal working example and a practical asset list implementation, tested in Maya 2023.

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Creating a Python binding using Cython

I recently found myself in need of the performance benefits of C/C++ while still wanting the ease of use that Python offers. This led me to Cython, which enables you to create a Python interface for your C/C++ code. It’s particularly useful for tasks that would be time-consuming or tedious in pure Python. For my project, I needed a solution to parse binary files, process their contents, and create an interface to display the data in Python. In this article, I'll guide you through the process of setting up a simple Python interface for C code using Cython.

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Extendscript hit the ground running

Ready to dive into ExtendScript but not sure where to start? This article breaks it all down, focusing on After Effects as our example. By the end, you'll have your setup ready to go and be running scripts straight from your editor—simple, clear, and to the point!

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Intrusive vs Non-intrusive Pipeline

This article explains the differences between intrusive and non-intrusive pipelines in production workflows. Learn how they impact flexibility, uniformity, and the way data is managed across teams.

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Workflow vs Pipeline

The terms pipeline and workflow are often muddled together, without a clear understanding of where one ends and the other begins. There is however a key difference between these two terms, which is important to highlight when talking about optimising productions.

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Ucupaint in Blender

Drawing. What you can do in Blender is only limited by your imagination. However, even though a lot is possible in Blender, not everything works as well or as you’re familiar with in other programs. Blender’s built-in texture painting options are a great example of something that is very nice to have in Blender, but not that nice to use. Luckily for us, if there’s a problem with Blender, there’s probably someone annoyed enough to fix it with an add-on. And for one of our projects we wanted to give Ucupaint a try.

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Flow Production Tracking (Shotgrid/Shotgun) Jira bridge

Communication is very important and if we can centralize it for production, artists and developers that's more than a plus. In this article we look at the integrating Jira with Shotgun.

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