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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…
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 Update: OpenEXR v3.1 Available Now OpenEXR logo on blue background with text "v3.1 Available now!" underneathAnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlogOpenEXR

Project Update: OpenEXR v3.1 Available Now

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…
rromoff
July 29, 2021
MaterialX Joins the Academy Software Foundation as a Hosted Project AnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlog

MaterialX Joins the Academy Software Foundation as a Hosted Project

 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…
rromoff
July 14, 2021
Project Spotlight: Industry Support for OpenColorIO v2 ASWF ProjectsBlogOpenColorIO

Project Spotlight: Industry Support for OpenColorIO v2

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…
rromoff
July 8, 2021