USD and Solaris in a Feature Film Pipeline | Simon Ohler & Andreas Giesen | RISE

Simon and Andreas will talk about how RISE switched to a fully USD based pipeline, with Houdini and Solaris at its core. They will discuss the challenges along the way and the tools and workflows they introduced. We will see examples of how assets and shots progress through the new pipeline and how RISE is now able to effectively handle and render more massive set-extensions and larger scale fluid simulations than ever before - all set up in Solaris using MaterialX and rendered with Karma. Simon Ohler has spent almost all of his professional career at RISE Visual Effects Studios, creating effects for movies like Captain America, Iron Man 3, Avengers and Dr. Strange. In 2017 he moved to the pipeline department full-time where, since 2019, he has been leading the development of RISE’ new Solaris-based USD Pipeline. Andreas Giesen works as a VFX Supervisor at RISE | Visual Effects Studios. He is considered one of RISE’s swiss army knives who can take a shot, no matter how complex, from concept, through blocking, lighting, shading and rendering to final. However his focus is now on VFX supervision - mostly of FX intense shows as he worked many years as a FX Supervisor. His latest work includes Jim Button and the Wild 13 and Matrix Resurrections.