A video walkthrough of the tutorial from the Gaffer documentation.
The buzz surrounding Gaffer was pretty solid at Siggraph this year, thanks in part to our Gaffer paper, published and presented at DigiPro.
If you're unfamiliar with DigiPro, its a co-located
From: DigiPro '16 Proceedings of the Symposium on Digital Production, 2016.
Gaffer: An open-source application framework for VFX
Source: The Association for Computing Machinery
Because Gaffer is a procedural system, modifications to objects are made by applying nodes to the scene, using filters to determine which objects within the scene are affected by a particular node. Commonly
The BlenderDiplom website has a nice interview with Francois Beaune, developer of Appleseed, the open source renderer behind the short film "Fetch".
In the interview François talks briefly about the recent