Student Film “Stowaway”

BYU’s Animated Film for 2021. I worked on it as the Render and Pipeline Lead, and I’m really grateful for the opportunity! A large chunk of my contributions to the film included automating chunks of production, building up the pipe, and then leading the rendering/compositing effort. My main contribution was DCC Pipe, a pipeline that I adapted from BYU’s 2019 film Death and Delilah. I added functionality to it that included:

• Taking work-from-home contributions and adapting them to the pipe
• Automating USD Stage conversion
• Automating Render Layer Generation
• Updating it for newer versions of software and fixing bugs as necessary

You can see the work I committed to the pipe here

Other than that, I spent many late nights in the animation studio rendering shots and compositing them, and I was part of the team that finished the film in late June of 2021. I’m so grateful for the experience and all the people I was able to work with!

If you’d like to see the film, you can view it here. It hasn’t been released publicly yet, but if you’d like to see it, contact me for the password and I’d be more than happy to give it to you!