At the SIGGRAPH 2017 Convention, in Los Angeles, I had represented Weta Digital and presented a 20 minute talk under the Pipe Dreams category:

gofileseq is a Go language library for parsing file sequence strings commonly used in VFX and animation applications.

In 2011 and 2012 I had released 3 commercial Python training tutorials, using Maya as a target platform. Now enjoy them free of charge!

This is an overview describing my approach to creating C++ bindings around a Go library.

Since 2006, my small blog has existed as a Wordpress site. This worked really well for me, as it was easy to hit a one-click install from a hosting dashboard, and then be able to install plugins, themes, and updates, all from the Wordpress admin. Ultimately it was one less thing vying for my time as opposed to a custom site from scratch. With limited free time, and a choice of projects to work on, the last thing I really wanted to do was website design and maintenance.

There are a number of sources of information on the usage and behavioral differences of the many “smart pointer” options offered by Qt. But one thing I couldn’t find enough information on were the performance characteristics.

On my last day of work at South Park Studios, my co-worker Tory gave me a present. It’s a book that collects together a history of doodles and graphics, capturing significant moments during my 4 year run with the team.

Tory tends to represent our team as dog characters. I can be identified usually by the pierced chin. Much of this content refers to inside jokes, but I feel it also has a number of generally hilarious imagery.

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PyQt4 UI Development for Maya #

Just released my 3rd python-based online training video through cmiVFX.com

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In a recent python project where I was sending multiple messages per second of data over a basic socket, I had initially just grabbed the cPickle module to get the prototype proof-of-concept functioning properly. cPickle is awesome for easily serializing more complex python objects like custom classes, even though in my case I am only sending basic types.