Setting up pyblish at my job

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#1

Hey all,

So at my work, they’ve finally implanted using ftrack and I’ve been interested in seeing improvements we could make towards getting some functionality through pyblish. I was wondering if someone could offer some advice on where to start etc as I’m pretty new to python in general (and setting up something like pyblish for a pipeline).

As of right now, our artists are kind of split with half using nuke and the other half using After Effects. I imagine having something set up for the nuke guys where they would ‘publish’ their renders, it would go through the whole validation process and then output a preview (to ftrack) and a final output to a shared storage that would eventually be delivered once the QC process is done. I don’t think that’s unreasonable.

Also, one thing I was curious about is can pyblish handle multiple validation values for different projects? IE, this one project has specific outputs it needs/naming conventions that are different from a different project.

#2

Hi @rallison,

For getting started from scratch, I think the best resource is https://learn.pyblish.com. It should be friendly enough for a Python beginner as well, let me know otherwise.

Yes, this is one of its core purposes. You would put validations in a folder per-project, and add the corresponding folder whenever you work on that project.

  1. Work on Project A, register the folder with validations for Project A
  2. Work on Project B, …

Validations they both have in common would go into a common folder, that is registered in both cases. You can register any number of folders. There will be more details in that tutorial.

Hope it helps!

#3

Thanks! Much appreciated. I’ll let you know if I run into any questions.