The Academy Software Foundation has formed a new Diversity & Inclusion Working Group to drive change within our community and across the open source ecosystem for VFX and animation. Join us!
Academy Software FoundationJune 12, 2020
As OpenCue approaches its one year anniversary, we reflect on the progress the community has made over the last 12 months.
Academy Software FoundationMay 20, 2020
Guest post by Michael Dolan, OpenColorIO TSC Chair, and Doug Walker, OpenColorIO TSC Chief Architect It's been just over a year since OpenColorIO (OCIO) was accepted into the Academy Software Foundation, so it's a good time to take a moment to provide an update on the state of the project.…
Academy Software FoundationApril 1, 2020
Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? When I was a freshman in college at Johns Hopkins University in 1982, I went to a lecture by a chemical engineering professor who showed some graphs of a 3-dimensional function describing…
Academy Software FoundationMarch 4, 2020
Guest post by Simon Robinson, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Foundry Foundry’s products Nuke and Katana stand as widely used, industry-standard tools, used by studios for compositing, look development and lighting, respectively. The capabilities of both in creating beautiful final images and assets as seen in feature films is in huge…
Academy Software FoundationFebruary 3, 2020
In Behind the Screens, we talk to developers and software engineers from across the motion picture and media industries to learn more about their work in visual effects and animation, how they use open source software, and their involvement in the Academy Software Foundation. Tell us a bit about yourself…
Academy Software FoundationNovember 19, 2019
Earlier this year, we announced that OpenCue had become an ASWF project. Originally developed in collaboration by Google Cloud and Sony Pictures Imageworks, OpenCue is an evolution of Sony’s internal queuing system, Cue 3, which has been developed and used in production at Sony over the past 15 years to schedule…
Academy Software FoundationNovember 13, 2019
Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I took a computer graphics class in grad school and was instantly hooked. I spent way more time on that class than I should have, working on a primitive Z buffered renderer…
Academy Software FoundationNovember 8, 2019
Microsoft joins as a Premier member.
Academy Software FoundationSeptember 13, 2019