Scott Milner — Pipeline TD / Software Dev
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Hello 👋

My name is Scott, I’m a Computer Science Master’s student studying graphics at Stanford 🌲. I build software that helps artists and fellow developers get their work done more efficiently.

In my undergrad, I studied Computer Science, focusing on CG/Animation/VFX pipelines and software development at Brigham Young University 🛠⚙️.

Things I’ve been working on recently:

  • I interned with the RenderMan team at Pixar Animation Studios, working on improvements to the RenderMan Texture Manager and OpenImageIO. My work will be included in the upcoming RenderMan 27 release.
  • I presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2025! Check out our presentation on adapting OpenUSD as a small studio here and our presentation on virtualizing artist workstations here.
  • I finished up my senior animation capstone—an animated short about a meet-cute in a crypt! I architected our USD-based pipeline from scratch. Feel free to read about it here or check out the code directly on Github. This code base also served as a base for a film capstone the following year and three video game capstones.

Big into: USD, Houdini, board games, and 400 year-old music

Check out my recent projects!

Dungeon Pipeline
dungeons
Dungeon Pipeline is a pipeline solution I wrote for my senior capstone short film Love & Gold.
Source code GitHub

PipeBot
dungeons
PipeBot is a Discord bot I created to help manage the pipeline for my senior thesis film.
Source code GitHub

Tractor LOPs
dungeons
Tractor LOPs are a set of Houdini HDAs for streamlining the process of sending render jobs to a Tractor renderfarm.
Source code GitHub

tractor-https
accomplice
dungeons
tractor-https adds SSL security and PAM authentication to Pixar’s Tractor renderfarm manager.
Source code GitHub

Accomplice Pipeline
accomplice
Accomplice Pipeline is a pipeline solution I worked on for the BYU capstone film project Student Accomplice.
Source code GitHub
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Check out films I’ve worked on!

Student Accomplice
Student Accomplice is the BYU Center for Animation’s 2024 short film capstone. I worked as a Pipeline TD on this film, supporting ~40 artists. Student Accomplice has…

Love & Gold
Love & Gold is the BYU Center for Animation’s 2025 short film capstone, about a meet-cute between two crypt robbbers. I was the lead Pipeline TD on this film, supporting ~50…
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