Our recent Careers in Film + Technology webinar series gathered developers and engineers from top Hollywood studios to give students an inside look at different career paths in visual effects and animation. Curated by ASWF’s Diversity and Inclusion working group, the 6-part series fostered informative discussions about how the speakers...
ASWF Now Counts 32 Members, Strengthening Open Source Tools Development and Industry Standards Los Angeles, CA (August 2, 2021) – Today the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), the preeminent organization for open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, announced the addition of new general member: Maxon. The...
OpenEXR, the professional-grade, high-dynamic-range image storage format of the motion picture industry and a project at the Academy Software Foundation, has officially released version 3.1. This new version can be downloaded from https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/releases. OpenEXR v3.1 includes significant new features, including a new library, OpenEXRCore.This is the result of a significant...
Los Angeles, CA (July 21, 2021) – The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) has announced an exciting slate of speakers for Open Source Days, its annual free virtual conference, taking place August 4-5. Attendees will hear from top executives from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, ILM, NBCUniversal, Netflix,...
Developed by Lucasfilm, MaterialX is the open standard for the transfer of rich material and look-development content between applications and renderers. Los Angeles, CA (July 14, 2021) – The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), the preeminent foundation for open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, today announced...
Back in February, we officially released OpenColorIO (OCIO) v2 for download. A complete open-source color management solution for VFX and animation pipelines, OCIO is used widely across the film industry and this release was highly anticipated by artists, developers, and color scientists alike. This significant version update followed three years...
The Academy Software Foundation is thrilled to share the initial Open Source Days 2021 schedule! This year’s lineup features key updates and insights from open source visual effects, animation, and content creation leaders from within the Foundations and beyond. The lineup includes keynote panel discussions, updates from members, projects from...
UPDATED 2021-07-28 with schedule and registration link. The Academy Software Foundation is hosting its third annual Open Source Days on August 4 and 5, 2021. The free, virtual event brings together the motion picture industry’s open source community to collaborate and learn about open source software for visual effects, animation,...
Rodeo FX is an award-winning visual effects studio headquartered in Montreal, with additional offices in Toronto, Munich, and Los Angeles. Employing over 600 artists globally, Rodeo FX is responsible for the stunning content in some of today’s biggest TV shows and films, including Stranger Things, WandaVision, Lovecraft Country, Jingle Jangle,...
Part 3: OpenEXR Today OpenEXR became an ASWF project in 2019. Today, Cary chairs OpenEXR’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC), which also includes Rod, Peter, and several other industry leaders. The TSC meets fortnightly on Zoom and is dedicated to maintaining OpenEXR as an open standard image format for entertainment content...
