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The gang here at Brainy Pixel are all tremendously passionate about the Island Jack project and we’re not the type of folks to sit idle. As such we wanted to provide a quick update and show what we’ve been up to since our initial grant submission:

We continue to write and hone the script for the feature film, working with animation industry luminary David Pitts - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1557666/ (Veggie Tales Producer and Writer and feature film producer for The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything) who is providing very valuable feedback on streamlining and smoothing out rough spots throughout the entirety of the script.

We’re always working to match pace with the animation industry here at Brainy Pixel, and the integration of the Shotgun Production Software - https://www.shotgunsoftware.com has been a huge step in the right direction. Utilizing Shotgun to manage our animation production workflow was a major goal that we set for our little studio in 2019 and we’re proud to say, “achievement unlocked”!

Hand-in-hand with our implementation of Shotgun, Brainy Pixel is also testing the waters with utilizing an entirely cloud-based animation pipeline, of which Shotgun is only one element. Utilizing remote virtual machines via Paperspace - https://www.paperspace.com, Brainy Pixel is able to spin up high-end machines in the cloud which our remote animators use at a fraction of the cost of purchasing physical machines.

As we work towards creating a company-wide standard for our animation process, we’ve also discovered and implemented yet another excellent software package called Prism Pipeline - https://prism-pipeline.com that integrates both with Blender and Shotgun. Prism Pipeline is an animation pipeline tool that handles file version control, configuration management, and file markup for all of our 3D assets.

Another major goal for Brainy Pixel for 2019 was not only working with the amazing capabilities of the Unreal Engine, but also integrating motion capture via our Perception Neuron - https://neuronmocap.com Gen 1 MOCAP suit. We’re excited to announce that this goal was also achieved and we’re now able to do fully wireless, real-time motion capture directly into the Unreal Game Engine. Check out the video below to see it happen!

Another major hurdle that lay before us in 2019 was sinking our teeth into the awesome capabilities that we knew lay within the Unreal Engine’s VFX System, Niagara - https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Niagara/index.html. Utilizing the excellent help provided by Epic, we’re now creating blowing snowstorm and particle-based light VFX within UE4.

As we continue fleshing out the script, we’re also working hard in defining the overall look and feel for the feature film and the world in which it takes place. We are very pleased with our new environmental concept art and have included some of this stunning work below for perusal.