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Academy Software Foundation Announces Dev Days, October 12-13

The Academy Software Foundation is excited to announce our newest event: Dev Days, a 48-hour global event encouraging developers of all experience levels to learn more about our open source projects, connect with mentors and project leads, and of course, write code! Dev Days will take place virtually on October…

Academy Software FoundationOctober 4, 2023

Blog Open Source Days

Academy Software Foundation Wraps up Open Source Days 2023

A recap of the Open Source Days 2023 Main Program featuring a keynote by Wenzel Jakob and a keynote panel on the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

Academy Software FoundationAugust 7, 2023

Blog Diversity & Inclusion

Community Support Needed for New Accessibility Initiative

We’re excited to share a new community-led initiative to improve accessibility across our Foundation projects to better support people with disabilities. “As an open source community it’s crucial for us to work together to ensure that our projects, tools, workflows, and data are truly accessible to all,” said Alexander Schwank,…

Academy Software FoundationAugust 4, 2023

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Academy Software Foundation Announces OpenPBR, a New Subproject of MaterialX

Developed by Autodesk and Adobe, OpenPBR is a new shading model that provides creatives with a more artist-friendly bridge from one software to another The Academy Software Foundation today announces OpenPBR, a new subproject of MaterialX. Initially created by Autodesk and Adobe with guidance from the MaterialX Technical Steering Committee,…

Academy Software FoundationAugust 2, 2023

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Getting Started with the USD Working Group

Copyright 2022 Animal Logic Pty Limited. All rights reserved. One of the Academy Software Foundation’s fastest-growing Working Groups has been the USD Working Group, co-chaired by Pixar’s Nick Porcino and Apple’s Alexander Schwank. OpenUSD, short for Universal Scene Description, was developed by Pixar to address common workflow challenges and reduce…

Academy Software FoundationAugust 1, 2023

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Open Source xSTUDIO Port Now Available for Windows

Epic Games, creator of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, has teamed up with Ahead, innovation studio and creator of Cezanne Studio, to build the open source Windows port of xSTUDIO, available now on GitHub. Designed by visual entertainment services company DNEG, xSTUDIO is a modern, flexible and feature-rich playback and review…

Academy Software FoundationJuly 31, 2023

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Academy Software Foundation Adopts OpenImageIO as Newest Hosted Project

Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) and Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) take on The Spot (Jason Schwartzman) in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation's SPIDER-MAN™: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE. Today the Academy Software Foundation – the motion picture industry’s premier organization for advancing open source software development across image creation, visual effects, animation,…

Academy Software FoundationJuly 28, 2023

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Keynote and Full Schedule Announced for Academy Software Foundation’s Open Source Days 2023

The Academy Software Foundation has announced the full schedule for its upcoming Open Source Days event, with the Main Program taking place on August 6, accompanied by a new Virtual Town Hall Series with presentations scheduled from July 25 through August 3, and a full day of Birds of a…

Academy Software FoundationJuly 21, 2023

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Bolt Graphics, CoreWeave, and OTOY Join the Academy Software Foundation

The Academy Software Foundation is pleased to welcome three new members: Bolt Graphics, CoreWeave, and OTOY. The companies each offer complementary solutions to accelerate content creation in visual effects workflows and beyond. This news comes ahead of the Foundation’s annual Open Source Days event, taking place in-person and virtually on…

Academy Software FoundationJuly 6, 2023

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ACM SIGGRAPH Recognizes Ken Museth for OpenVDB

Ken Museth, founder of OpenVDB and Chair of the OpenVDB Technical Steering Committee, has been recognized with the ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award for the creation and continued development of OpenVDB!

Academy Software FoundationJune 20, 2023