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USD Spatial

spatial analysis for OpenUSD

an open source Python library and CLI for assessing spatial properties and relationships of prims in an OpenUSD stage

Open project: USD Spatial

Case study in preparation

Index

01USD Spatialspatial analysis for OpenUSD
02Folkerypersonal relationship manager
03Plugins & Extensionssoftware add-ons

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I’m a Lighting Technical Director and Area Technical Specialist at Industrial Light & Magic in London. I started out lighting shots on high-end VFX productions, and now spend much of my time making lighting and rendering faster, more reliable and easier to work with at scale.

That means profiling and optimising Katana and RenderMan scenes, building tools and workflows, contributing to team development, debugging difficult production problems, and working between artists and engineers to turn technical ideas into practical solutions.

I was the first Area Technical Specialist in both ILM Sydney and ILM London, helping establish the role across the two studios.

Outside production, I build tools and independent software, including Folkery.

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