Introduction to Gaffer – GafferBot lighting and lookDev
A video walkthrough of the tutorial from the Gaffer documentation.
SIGGRAPH and DigiPro 2016
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
Gaffer: An open-source application framework for VFX
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
Interview: Independenence Day Resurgence
FXGuide has a detailed breakdown of Independence Day: Resurgence, including Image Engine's key contributions: the aliens, interior mothership environment, and holding prison.
Hear from VFX Supervisor Martyn Culpitt and Look Development
Drag and drop objects to assign shaders
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