The Academy Software Foundation, in conjunction with the Visual Effects Society’s Technology Committee, today announced its new Wayland for Artists Working Group. Wayland is a modern display server protocol for Linux that replaces its legacy X Window System (X11) protocol, aiming to be easier to develop and maintain. The Working...
Bill Ballew, CTO of DreamWorks Animation, to Keynote Every summer, we host Open Source Days to bring together technical leaders, software engineers, developers, pipeline supervisors, technical directors and anyone else who touches open source software, for two days of presentations, collaboration and networking. This year’s Open Source Days takes place...
MoonRay, developed by DreamWorks Animation, becomes the newest ASWF hosted project.
Foundry’s recent Nuke 17.0 release marks a significant leap forward for the industry-standard compositing toolkit, including the first step for native MaterialX support in Nuke. Artists can now access a new MtlXStandardSurface node to view and render Autodesk Standard Surface for MaterialX shaders directly inside Nuke’s new USD-based 3D system....
The Academy Software Foundation, the motion picture industry’s premier organization for advancing open source software development, today welcomed its newest project: OpenPGL, short for Open Path Guiding Library. Initially developed by Intel, OpenPGL allows artists and developers to use more realistic lighting when building and designing their scenes and animations,...
At the end of February, Academy Software Foundation members and invited guests gathered for our annual Open Source Forum, a one-day exclusive venue for industry leaders to share their learnings and collaborate to drive the future of open source software development. We were delighted to have Netflix, one of the...
The Academy Software Foundation today announced the addition of three new member companies: Technology developer Miris is joining the Foundation as a general member, in addition to Open 3D Engine (O3DE) and Texas A&M University’s College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts joining as associate members. David Morin, Executive Director...
The Academy Software Foundation has announced the keynote speakers and full schedule details for its Open Source Forum on February 26. Held annually for Foundation members and invited guests, this exclusive event brings together leaders from across the media and entertainment industries to share their learnings and inspiration for the...
The Academy Software Foundation is excited to announce the addition of a Slang shader generator to the MaterialX ecosystem! Developed by NVIDIA and now maintained by The Khronos® Group, Slang™ is an open-source shading language and compiler, built on 15 years of research, development, and deployment experience. Slang is designed...
2025 marks the third year of our annual Dev Days program – a 24-hour virtual hackathon designed to bring in new contributors to the Foundation’s open source projects. For the first time this year, we hosted two standalone Dev Days events – one in the spring and one in the...
