This week we talk with Christy Anzelmo, Chief Product Officer at Foundry and before that Director of Product for the Nuke family of projects. We take a tour of her career, beginning in the fashion industry before moving in to VFX, her role in leading development on one of the most widely used compositing softwares in the industry, and on the uses of Foundry products outside of VFX in product design, architecture and even car configuration. We talk about the rising importance of machine learning and USD in VFX, interoperability and finally we talk about working in software as a career path for VFX Artists. Apologies for the occasional echoes in this episode - I had my headphones a little too loud. Time codes 00:00:00What to expect in this episode 00:01:36Introduction to Christy Anzelmo 00:04:10Career beginning and work in the Fashion industry 00:09:30Foundry Products in product design 00:12:00Use of digital in the fashion industry 00:13:30Starting working on Nuke 00:15:30How Daniel and Christy met at her first client facing meeting 00:17:30The diversity of the Nuke userbase 00:18:30Can Christy use Nuke? 00:20:09The Nuke team 00:21:02Product Management and working in the industry 00:24:30What Foundry does with that long survey they send you 00:26:00A feature added to Nuke as a result of the survey 00:26:40Cara VR and 360 video 00:28:00Unusual uses of Nuke 00:30:00Car configuration with Nuke 00:32:46Different priorities for different companies 00:33:20Shake to disconnect and Apple Shake 00:34:00Improving usability in professional software 00:36:50Looking at rival software and consistency 00:39:00Interoperability and less linear pipelines 00:41:30USD and “The Dream” 00:43:12Copy Cat and machine learning in Nuke 13 00:48:15Pre-trained tools in Nuke 13 00:48:50IP and copyright obstacles to machine learning