ASWF Projects Archives

OpenAssetIO Beta Release Now Available

Image caption: An image sequence being loaded in to Foundry's Nuke using an entity reference from Ynput’s AYON, with no custom pipeline code involved The first beta release of OpenAssetIO is now publicly available! Adopted into the Foundation earlier this year in the sandbox stage, OpenAssetIO is an open-source interoperability…

Academy Software FoundationNovember 14, 2023

ASWF Projects Blog MaterialX

OpenPBR v0.2 Now Publicly Available

The OpenPBR repository is now publicly available on GitHub! First announced in August as part of the Academy Software Foundation’s Open Source Days program, OpenPBR is a subproject of MaterialX, and provides an artist-friendly new open source shading model to bridge the gap from one software package to another. Developed…

Academy Software FoundationNovember 1, 2023

ASWF Projects Blog OpenColorIO

OpenColorIO Receives SMPTE Workflow Systems Medal

Last week at the annual SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) Media Technology Summit in Los Angeles, we were thrilled to see Carol Payne and Doug Walker accept the Workflow Systems Medal on behalf of OpenColorIO (OCIO). SMPTE’s Workflow Systems Medal recognizes outstanding contributions related to the development…

Academy Software FoundationOctober 24, 2023

Announcements ASWF Projects Blog Open Source Days

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

ASWF Projects Blog MaterialX

Latest MaterialX Release now Available; New USD Release Enables MaterialX Support by Default

New MaterialX release adds Graph Editor and Support for the Metal Shading Language; latest USD release enables MaterialX support by default.

Academy Software FoundationApril 21, 2023

Announcements ASWF Projects Blog Open Review Initiative

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.

Emily OlinJanuary 19, 2023

Announcements ASWF Projects Blog 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.

Emily OlinJanuary 18, 2023

ASWF Projects Blog OpenVDB

OpenVDB Releases Version 10.0 with new OpenVDB Link

OpenVDB Version 10 is now available and introduces OpenVDB Link, a Mathematica interface to OpenVDB.

Academy Software FoundationNovember 9, 2022

Announcements ASWF Projects Blog Members Open Review Initiative Review & 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 FoundationAugust 8, 2022

Announcements ASWF Projects Blog Members

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…