Autodesk Q&A: Bringing RV to the Open Source Community
A discussion with Diana Colella, SVP of Media and Entertainment at Autodesk, about their involvement in the Foundation and plans for Open RV.
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DNEG Releases Open Source xSTUDIO, Hosted by the Academy Software Foundation
DNEG contributes the open source version of xSTUDIO, a Playback and Review application, to the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Review Initiative.
Autodesk’s Open RV now available on Academy Software Foundation GitHub
Autodesk contributes Open RV, the open-source version of its RV media review and playback software, to the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Review Initiative.
OpenVDB Releases Version 10.0 with new OpenVDB Link
OpenVDB Version 10 is now available and introduces OpenVDB Link, a Mathematica interface to OpenVDB.
Open Source Days 2022 – That’s a Wrap!
Highlights from the Academy Software Foundation's Open Source Days event at SIGGRAPH 2022.
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
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 newest hosted project. The DPEL project grew out of the industry’s long-standing need...
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
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 a popular open source plugin standard that allows interoperability...
Neville Spiteri, Wevr
Neville Spiteri Co-Founder / CEO Wevr Tell us a bit about yourself – how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? What was your major in college? I started experimenting with the BASIC programming language when I was 12 years old on a ZX81 Sinclair home computer,...