New MaterialX Teapot and Lion assets created by NVIDIA are now available for download through DPEL! Originally used to showcase neural materials, the complex, production-style reference materials are provided as MaterialX shader graphs built from standalone BSDFs assembled with layer and mix nodes.
Open Source Days 2026 wrapped in Los Angeles with 500+ in-person attendees, standout talks, and announcements including StEM3-VP in DPEL, a MoonRay Snap installer, and three new members.
The ASC has contributed StEM3-VP, a suite of Unreal Engine environments, 2D plates, and test elements for evaluating LED volumes, to the ASWF Digital Production Example Library.
The ASWF welcomes CIQ, Evercast and Rochester Institute of Technology as new members.
DreamWorks and Canonical have released a Snap installer that makes MoonRay easy to install on 40+ Linux distributions, without building from source.
The ASWF and the VES Technology Committee have launched the Wayland for Artists Working Group to explore how Linux's move from X11 to Wayland affects VFX and animation workflows.
The Open Source Days 2026 schedule is live, featuring a keynote from DreamWorks CTO Bill Ballew on July 19 in Los Angeles, plus Birds of a Feather sessions at SIGGRAPH on July 20.
MoonRay, developed by DreamWorks Animation, becomes the newest ASWF hosted project.
Foundry's Nuke 17.0 introduces native MaterialX support, letting artists view and render MaterialX Standard Surface shaders inside Nuke's new USD-based 3D system.
OpenPGL, the Open Path Guiding Library originally developed by Intel, joins the Academy Software Foundation as a sandbox project to bring production-ready path guiding to renderers.
