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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has teamed up with The Linux Foundation to start an Academy Software Foundation, aimed at providing a forum for open source software developers to share resources and collaborate on image creation, visual effects, animation and sound technologies. Founding members include VFX houses,…

For the first time in history, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation have partnered together to launch the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF). We sat down with the Head of ILM, Rob Bredow, to discuss the implications (below). The ASWF is the first time the…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation have launched the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF). It’s goal is to provide a neutral forum for open source software developers in the motion picture and broader media industries to share resources and collaborate on technologies for image creation,…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Linux Foundation have launched the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a new nonprofit organization devoted to tech advancement in image creation, visual effects, animation, and sound. The focus will be on expanding open source software (OSS) development, once proprietary, for greater…

The Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), best known for running the Oscars, is diving into the technology world in a surprisingly new way. Together with the Linux Foundation, it's launching the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a neutral forum for the movie industry to organize and collaborate around using open…

Open source is everywhere now, so maybe it’s no surprise that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (yes, the organization behind the Oscars) today announced that it has partnered with the Linux Foundation to launch the Academy Software Foundation, a new open source foundation for developers in the…

The movies are going open source. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundationtoday launched the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) to provide a neutral forum for open source software developers in the motion picture and broader media industries to share resources and collaborate on technologies for image creation, visual effects, animation and sound.…

Hollywood now has its very own open source organization: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has teamed up with the Linux Foundation to launch the Academy Software Foundation, which is dedicated to advance the use of open source in film making and beyond. The association’s founding members include Animal Logic, Autodesk, Blue Sky…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation have launched the Academy Software Foundation, a forum for open source software developers in the motion picture and broader media industries. The new hub is designed to share resources and collaborate on technologies for image creation, visual effects,…