Python snippets (Maya) for the budding TD Part 1

Over the last 2-3 years, I've been involved in Maya based team projects with students.  I've seen all of the common issues that come up - mostly from just not following the protocols they were told to use when working within a team project, and just bad file management in general.

As part of a group project last year for my class, I decided to take a lot of these problems out of their hands and automate them with tools specifically designed to manage parts of the pipeline and work flow.

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No sleep in this bedroom...

I've had this film for a while now, and since its been some time since my last blog post, I figured that this would be a great way to kick things off for 2015.

From Bedrooms to Billions is a feature length (2.5 hours) documentary of the rise and fall of the gaming industry started in the United Kingdom back in the late 70's and early 80's.  What I loved about this story (and the reason I was happy to throw my support on the kickstarter and indiegogo campaigns) is that it truly is the story of my childhood.

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