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Inclusive Language in Technology

This guest post by Barathy Rangarajan from DreamWorks Animation explores inclusive terminology in code and documentation, including general guidelines, recommendations on common terms to replace, and examples from companies like Autodesk, DreamWorks Animation, and Sony Pictures Imageworks.

Academy Software FoundationFebruary 1, 2021

Announcements Diversity & Inclusion

Addressing the State of Diversity & Inclusion in Open Source VFX Communities

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

ASWF Projects Blog OpenEXR

OpenEXR Project Update: One Year at ASWF!

Learn about the progress the OpenEXR community has made over the last 12 months since joining the Academy Software Foundation.

Academy Software FoundationMay 29, 2020

ASWF Projects Blog OpenCue

OpenCue Celebrates its First Anniversary

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

ASWF Projects Blog OpenColorIO

OpenColorIO: 2020 “State of the Project”

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

Behind the Screens

Cary Phillips, Industrial Light & Magic

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

ASWF Projects Blog OpenColorIO OpenEXR

OpenEXR and OpenColorIO in Foundry’s Nuke and Katana

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

Behind the Screens

Brian Cipriano, Google

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

ASWF Projects Blog OpenCue

Sony Pictures Imageworks Case Study – OpenCue

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

Behind the Screens

Jean-Francois Panisset, Consultant

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

Inclusive Language in Technology

Addressing the State of Diversity & Inclusion in Open Source VFX Communities

OpenEXR Project Update: One Year at ASWF!

OpenCue Celebrates its First Anniversary

OpenColorIO: 2020 “State of the Project”

Cary Phillips, Industrial Light & Magic

OpenEXR and OpenColorIO in Foundry’s Nuke and Katana

Brian Cipriano, Google

Sony Pictures Imageworks Case Study – OpenCue

Jean-Francois Panisset, Consultant

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