The disastrous life of the Technical Director

Or: The quirks and challenges of creating ads for broadcast and online

BlackBoard VFX is a studio from Israel, with vast experience in creating award-winning commercials and music video clips, and all that with Blender and AFX as our main tools.
In this talk, I will reveal our pipeline creation process, integration with other parties and software, distasteful jokes (and their sad outcomes), dark technical problems, air pollution, some solutions, and copious amounts of peanut butter snacks.

Our showreel:
https://youtu.be/sxnPzsn4fAo

Speaker

  • Serj Maiorov works at BlackBoard for 9 years.
    He covers the pipeline management, and the process from shading/lighting to the final compositing stage.
    After many technical challenges, changing pipelines and good people on board - BlackBoard became one of the most successful studios in Israel.
    Created Israel's first Blender user conference and manages those events since then.