Since neither of the above are experienced in layout or rendering, we hire a third guy to do the setup of the scene.She and the Modeler have some issues making the texturing work back and forth between Mari and Maya because they aren’t used to being outside of a studio pipeline that takes care of everything for them. Instead she uses Mari (a Foundry product). She doesn’t actually use Maya for UV work or texturing.

The modeling guy only does modeling, so we need to bring in a texture artist.He’s nominally a Maya guy, but the studio he was at had their own custom modeling software which he’s more familiar with, so even though he’s working in Maya, it’s not his first choice. He’s an experienced modeler but his background is in a studio environment where there are a lot of departments and a pretty hefty pipeline to help deal with everything. We hire a 3D artist to start modeling for us.The real turning point came when we had to pull together a small team of freelancers to do a sequence. We were already using Nuke and NukeX as a company (which are pretty expensive software packages) and had been using Maya for about a year. The original decision to use Blender actually didn’t have anything to do with the cost (though it’s certainly helpful now that we have more people using it). Our texturing and material work is done in Substance Painter, and compositing is done in Nuke and After Effects. In addition to Blender, we occasionally use other 3D programs, including Houdini for particle systems, fire, etc. In order to deal with the huge rendering needs of High Castle, we set up cloud rendering using Amazon’s own AWS servers through Deadline, which allowed us to have as many as 150 machines working at a time to render some of the big sequences. One of them was the Cycles render engine, that we’ve used for our rendering of most of the 3D elements in High Castle and other shows. It’s very unusual for VFX houses (at least in the US) to use Blender (as opposed to, say, Maya), but there are a number of great features that caused us to switch over to it. We’ve experimented with a variety of programs over the years, but for 3D work, we settled on using Blender starting about 3 years ago. The following text is an edited version of the answers of a Reddit AMA held by the heads of the team (Lawson Deming and Cory Jamieson) on February 3, 2017.

Nominated for VES award for their outstanding work on the TV series “The Man in the High Castle”, they have been using Blender as integral part of their pipeline. Barnstorm VFX embodies the diverse skills, freewheeling spirit, and daredevil attitude of the early days stunt plane pilots.

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