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Academy Software Foundation’s New Open Review Initiative Forms with Initial Code Contributions from Autodesk, DNEG, and Sony Pictures Imageworks AnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlogMembersOpen Review InitiativeReview & Approval WG

Academy Software Foundation’s New Open Review Initiative Forms with Initial Code Contributions from Autodesk, DNEG, and Sony Pictures Imageworks

The Academy Software Foundation today announces the Open Review Initiative, a new project led by contributions from member companies Autodesk, DNEG, and Sony Pictures Imageworks, with the mission to build a unified open source toolset for playback, review and approval of motion picture and related professional media. The Academy Software…
Academy Software Foundation Launches Digital Production Example Library as Newest Project to House Production-Grade Content AnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlogMembers

Academy Software Foundation Launches Digital Production Example Library as Newest Project to House Production-Grade Content

Still from 'The Mission' - courtesy of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) The Academy Software Foundation – the motion picture industry’s premier organization for advancing open source software development across image creation, visual effects, animation, and sound technologies – today announces the Digital Production Example Library (DPEL) as its…
Canonical and Khronos Group Join the Academy Software Foundation AnnouncementsBlogMembersOpen Source Days

Canonical and Khronos Group Join the Academy Software Foundation

Ahead of its annual Open Source Days conference dedicated to highlighting the latest in open source projects used for visual effects, animation, and image creation, the Academy Software Foundation is pleased to welcome two new members: Canonical and The Khronos Group. Launched in August 2018 by the Academy of Motion…
OpenAssetIO Forms as Sandbox Project at Academy Software Foundation AnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlog

OpenAssetIO Forms as Sandbox Project at Academy Software Foundation

The Academy Software Foundation is pleased to announce that it has accepted OpenAssetIO as its newest hosted project, and the first project to enter the Foundation in the sandbox stage. The sandbox stage is the earliest entry point into the Foundation for young projects, to provide a framework and resources…
Academy Software Foundation Adds OpenFX Image Processing Standard as Newest Hosted Project AnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlog

Academy Software Foundation Adds OpenFX Image Processing Standard as Newest Hosted Project

Screen shot showing the new OpenFX overlay draw suite The Academy Software Foundation – the motion picture industry’s premier organization for advancing open source software development across image creation, visual effects, animation, and sound technologies – today announces OpenFX as its newest hosted project. First developed in 2004, OpenFX is…
Project Spotlight: Industry Support Grows for OpenTimelineIO Screen shot showing OTIO support in Foundry's Nuke StudioBlogOpenTimelineIO

Project Spotlight: Industry Support Grows for OpenTimelineIO

OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) is an open source API and interchange format that facilitates the communication of editorial data and timeline information in rich and flexible workflows – filling a critical but often-overlooked gap in film production pipelines. Its API is simple to integrate with both studio tools and third-party software applications,…
Shannon Deoul
June 29, 2022