About:

CGRU is a CG tools pack includes AFANASY - Free Open Source Render Farm Manager.

Name "CGRU" - came from CG - Rules. It has two meanings: computer graphics principles and computer graphics is a cool thing.

Name "Afanasy" - came from a Greek name meaning "immortal".

Projects:

• Wanted (2008)
• Obitaemyy ostrov (2008)
• Chernaya Molniya (2009)
• High Security Vacation (2009)
• Death Race 2 (2010)
• Blue Crush 2 (2011)
• Elena (2011)
• Vykrutasy (2011)
• Scorpion King: Battle for Redemption (2011)
• The Darkest Hour (2011)
• Visotsky (2011)
• Project: S.E.R.A. (2012)
• Shpion (2012)
• Step Up Revolution (2012)

• Lampibata

Companies:

• Algous
• Fibr Film Production
• Film Direction
• Ghost A/S
• Kiev Postproduction
• Piastro VFX
• Postmodern
• Shotty
• Terminal FX
• The Chimney Pot Kiev

History:

CGRU project was started in 2005 as Maya (3d software name) tools pack. It included 3d modeling tools and rules. And was designed to join Maya MEL scripts and plug-ins from several artists. It still exists but as a part of the project. Later the project started to include tools for other software and a render farm manager. Moved on SourceForge site and lost all not open-source tools. Modeling rules lost support and became ancient. But an idea to store some accumulated CG rules still exists. Now there are mot much rules, no modeling rules at all. Also rules got a funny shade as companies have enough serious rules.

Afanasy was started in 2007. In 2008 a fist working alpha version started to solve jobs on real VFX projects in "Film Direction" (Russia). It was merged with CGRU project on SourceForge and became open-source. Now it is a main part of CGRU project and other tools can be considered as an utilities for it. So we may say that CGRU consist of Afanasy render manager and some ready solutions for it, like submit scripts or movie encode scripts, for example.

Paper

• Paper (rus)