This is a lot of the work where I would either script tools for automatic processes, create custom feedback shaders, layout pipelines and workflows, etc. Most stuff is pretty old, before I became full time Real-time VFX.

 R&D, MEL Scripting and Implementation: FaceShift to Unity Pipeline Tool

In order to create a room full of talking characters with a very small team, we decided to implement generated characters from the Autodesk Character Generator and use the existing phoneme blendshapes to create a new set of blendshapes for use with FaceShift. I wrote a small tool to help convert the existing blendshapes to the required set for FaceShift, clean up the old set, check the new set and even batch process characters. Here is my R&D and implementation with FaceShift into our Maya-Unity pipeline which allowed us to get characters talking in engine with a few button clicks.

MEL - ProxyPlace Script - code here

This script I wrote for a fairly large-scale personal project, the bridge explosion shot. In order to have the rigid, soft and cloth dynamics interact with almost 100 million particles, as well as falling vehicles, I needed to use use proxy models for the cars. One of the main issues I had was upon re-importing the simulation, all proxy objects had completely different pivot points in space. So I built a small library of high res vehicles and their respective proxy mesh, after re-importing the simulation, the script iterates through each proxy vehicle, and through a series of duplication, point and parent constraints, replaces the low res objects with the high res geometry accounting for the altered pivot.