LOPs of love from the USD pipeline at Rebellion | Rebellion Film Studios | FMX HIVE 2022

A close up look at the VFX division at Rebellion Studios and their USD pipeline through the lens of various projects such as Sniper Elite 5 and Evil Genius (Hyper real and stylized game cinematic), The Fear Index (VFX) and others. We will share a look at our "blueprint" which describes in detail how an asset flows from model creation in various DCCs to Houdini for LookDev, to Maya for rigging and animation and finally back to Houdini's Solaris and rendering with Karma - with some procedural Layout and set dressing thrown in along the way.

He Sun is the Head of VFX at Rebellion Film Studios. A VFX and real-time technology supervisor, and managing director. Specialised in virtual production, USD pipeline, procedural solution and art direction. He Sun started his career in the game industry, contributed to games franchises such as GoldenEye 007, Dead Space, and Sniper Elite. Besides the game experiences, Sun also stepped into VFX for Film and TV. His credits include The Lion King (2019), The Mandalorian(2019) and Maleficent: The Mistress of Evil (2019). In late 2019, He established the VFX division at Rebellion Film Studios in South Oxford, UK. The studio is emerging with the technology between the real-time game engine and USD based VFX workflow, offering high-quality VFX for film/TV, CGI trailer, cinematic, and virtual production.

Marco Dörner is the Lead Lighting TD at Rebellion Film Studios. Marco started to make movies with LEGO at the age of 10 and when he realized there weren't enough bricks for his ideas he turned to 3D. After working as a freelancer in video postproduction for a while he focused his efforts on lookdev, lighting, rendering and compositing - everything that makes a pretty picture - for CGI cinematics, feature films and TV shows. Outside of work he plays a lot with voxel art - probably because it resembles those beautiful bricks from his childhood.


00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:16 - Meet He Sun and Marco
00:01:40 - Rebellion VFX Showreel
00:03:04 - Rebellion's USD Workflow
00:03:36 - Asset USD Workflow
00:07:23 - Model Preparation
00:08:25 - Model Houdini USD Packaging
00:12:02 - Textures
00:32:12 - ShotLoad - Animation in Maya
00:27:42 - ShotBuild - Blueprint Tool
00:35:33 - Environment Build
00:40:19 - Lighting
00:50:28 - Q&A