FMX 2026: Live Presentation

Last month we had the exciting opportunity to speak together with Expanse at the FMX – Film & Media Exchange and talk about the latest updates in Prism.

Fredrik Fottland, Richard Frangenberg, Eilef Sandnæs, Konstantin Schorer and Sigurd Sørlie presented a variety of different workflows and shared tips and tricks for working with USD across Houdini and Maya.

We showed a bunch of upcoming features like:

• a first glimpse of the new Prism ComfyUI integration
• a Prism MCP server to automate complex workflows
• multishot workflows for Houdini Slapcomps and Nuke
• an OpenTimelineIO integration across multiple DCCs

We also covered recent additions to Prism like ingest and delivery tools as well as new scene-building workflows.

To bring all of this into the perspective of an actual studio production, the team from Expanse went into a deep dive of the VFX workflows for the movie “A Mouse Hunt for Christmas”.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
03:10 Development Updates (Last Year)
04:05 After Effects
04:32 Photoshop
04:58 Execution Graph
07:12 IO Tools
10:25 Community Plugins
10:36 Documentation Updates
12:00 Scene Building
14:38 USD Updates
17:55 And More…
18:18 Expanse Introduction by Fredrik Fottland
20:36 A Mouse Hunt for Christmas by Fredrik Fottland
25:41 What’s Next by Fredrik Fottland
27:44 Our VFX Workflow by Sigurd Sørlie
33:01 USD Workflow by Eilef Sandnæs
42:25 Future Development
42:46 OpenTimelineIO
44:51 Multishot Workflows
45:01 Multishot Slapcomps (Houdini)
46:28 Multishot (Nuke)
47:59 ComfyUI Integration
51:19 AI Agents
52:31 MCP (Model Context Protocol)
55:44 Closing Note
56:44 Q&A

Speakers:
Fredrik Fottland (Expanse)
Richard Frangenberg (Prism Pipeline)
Eilef Sandnæs (Expanse)
Konstantin Schorer (Prism Pipeline)
Sigurd Sørlie (Expanse)

Expanse: https://www.expanse.no/