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Academy Software Foundation Announces Schedule for Open Source Days 2024 AnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlogMembersOpen Source Days

Academy Software Foundation Announces Schedule for Open Source Days 2024

The Academy Software Foundation has announced the schedule for its upcoming Open Source Days event, taking place both virtually and in-person in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday, July 28.  This year’s keynote will be delivered by Darin Grant, CTO of Animal Logic, with additional speakers including executives from Adobe, Amazon Web…
Academy Software Foundation
June 24, 2024
Academy Software Foundation Announces OpenPBR, a New Subproject of MaterialX BlogMaterialXMembersOpen Source Days

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 Foundation
August 2, 2023
Getting Started with the USD Working Group BlogOpen Source Days

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 Foundation
August 1, 2023
Open Source xSTUDIO Port Now Available for Windows BlogMembersOpen Review InitiativeOpen Source Days

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 Foundation
July 31, 2023
Academy Software Foundation Adopts OpenImageIO as Newest Hosted Project AnnouncementsASWF ProjectsBlogOpen 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 Foundation
July 28, 2023
Keynote and Full Schedule Announced for Academy Software Foundation’s Open Source Days 2023 AnnouncementsBlogOpen Source Days

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 Foundation
July 21, 2023
Bolt Graphics, CoreWeave, and OTOY Join the Academy Software Foundation AnnouncementsBlogMembersOpen Source Days

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 Foundation
July 6, 2023
Canonical and Khronos Group Join the Academy Software Foundation AnnouncementsBlogMembersOpen Source Days

Canonical and Khronos Group Join the Academy Software Foundation

Ahead of its annual Open Source Days conference dedicated to highlighting the latest in open source projects used for visual effects, animation, and image creation, the Academy Software Foundation is pleased to welcome two new members: Canonical and The Khronos Group. Launched in August 2018 by the Academy of Motion…
Academy Software Foundation
August 5, 2022
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