Name: Productionizing XStudio: A Studio's Journey From Fork To Floor - Julien Hery, Rodeo FX
Start: 2026-07-19T10:50:00-0700
End: 2026-07-19T11:10:00-0700

July 19| Los Angeles, California
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Productionizing XStudio: A Studio's Journey From Fork To Floor - Julien Hery, Rodeo FX

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PDT

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Open-source DCCs ship a generic core; studios need something calibrated to their pipeline, their shows, and their dailies room. We argue that gap should be closed by small teams shipping in days, not quarters — and that AI-augmented engineering finally makes that realistic without devolving into vibe coding.

When Rodeo FX adopted xStudio, the upstream release was the foundation. In months, a small team built the rest: a forked C++ media hook for OCIO and cross-platform paths, plus 14+ Python plugins — a ShotGrid browser, auto-conform from track names, version compare, notes publishing with annotations, dailies broadcast, HUD overlays, snippets.

This talk shares the methodology behind shipping production-grade xStudio extensions on top of an open-source core at studio cadence: what the plugin architecture made easy, where it bit us, and which patterns we want to push back upstream so the next adopter doesn't rebuild the scaffolding.

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Julien Hery

VFX Supervisor at Rodeo FX, Rodeo FX

VFX Supervisor Julien Héry’s work includes HBO’s series Dune: Prophecy, Netflix’s biggest hit Stranger Things seasons 4 and 5, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, superhero fan favorite WandaVision, and the critically acclaimed film The Aeronauts. Joining the Rodeo... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PDT
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