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> "Python is the industry standard for all of the major applications we use to create Animated and VFX content, so it goes without saying that we are using it very heavily..."

Interesting... very curious to see Netflix using tools in the VFX industry, Shotgun & Nuke to name a few, I wish they can expand more on this.

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I used to work for a major vfx house who did much work on Netflix original shows

there will be a certain amount of sharing needed between vendors, and so Netflix will need to have some vfx expertise in-house to coordinate that (similar to how a film will have a vfx supervisor that works for the film production company, who liases with supervisors at each vendor company)

but it would be very sensible for them to have an in-house asset library (which may included work written in python, not just images or textures) so that if they want to switch vfx vendor between seasons of a show it's easy to do so

in general, python rules in the vfx world. there's some c++ too. Sadly, because it's been this way for so long, many houses are still stuck in a python 2 world with huge legacy codebases

Netflix produces content too

A lot of it, which needs compositing, post-production, encoding, etc. Python is great for pipeline code to script the compiled libraries that do the number crunching.

Some of it is licensed/farmed out to places like DreamWorks however (new Voltron/She-ra), which is mostly a Java/Spring shop, to my knowledge.

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