TumblePipe

A small studio pipeline for animation and VFX projects in Houdini, developed for the Turbulence short film at Tumblehead.

TumblePipe is designed for individuals and small teams (up to ~20 artists). It bundles Houdini Digital Assets, Python tools, OCIO configuration, a USD asset resolver, and integrations for the Deadline render farm.

Getting started

• Installation
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing TumblePipe
  • Making Houdini aware of TumblePipe
• Configuration
  • Environment variables
  • Project setup wizard
  • The convention framework
  • Where configuration lives in the codebase
  • Next steps

Production

• Deadline and the render farm
  • Farm worker prerequisites
  • The Deadline UV plugin
  • Submitting a job from TumblePipe
  • Further reading

Reference

• Project structure
  • Key directories

Project

• Contributing and development
• Changelog

Disclaimer

TumblePipe is free and open source — do with it as you please. The project was made by and for a small studio, so design decisions reflect what we have resources to maintain. We cannot offer tech support, we do not guarantee backwards compatibility between releases, and we do not publish deprecation warnings. Feedback and questions are always welcome via GitHub Issues.