New StEM3-VP digital assets help cinematographers stress-test and evaluate LED volumes for virtual production SUMMARY LOS ANGELES – ASWF Open Source Days – July 19, 2026 – The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) today announced the public release of Standard Evaluation Material 3 for...
The ASWF welcomes CIQ, Evercast and Rochester Institute of Technology as new members.
Fresh on the heels of MoonRay joining the Academy Software Foundation as a hosted project, two of the Foundation’s member companies – DreamWorks and Canonical – have collaborated to introduce a new Snap installer for MoonRay, which makes MoonRay more easily accessible to a wide range of Linux users. MoonRay...
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...
