When your shot breakdowns live in spreadsheets and your supervisors spend more time data wrangling than supervising, something’s broken. Jindrich Cervenka, lead developer at PFX, decided to fix it. The result? The Crossbow VFX pipeline tool: a project management and review tool aimed at automating the grind, integrating with platforms like Ftrack, and keeping productions in context, whether you’re running dailies or fighting through last-minute chaos. We asked Jindrich what Crossbow actually shoots, how it’s built, and whether it really makes life better for VFX and animation teams.
In this interview, we speak with Jindrich Cervenka, a seasoned VFX Supervisor at PFX. His recent work on Locked—a claustrophobic thriller set entirely inside a car—offered a unique set of challenges, which you can read about here. But in that interview, he mentioned "Crossbow", the bidding and pipeline tool at PFX. And even though it is, so far and maybe always will be, internal, PFX lets us take a peak...
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