ASWF Projects Archives

Introducing the ASWF Color Interop Forum

The ASWF Color Interop Forum, a fresh initiative set to launch on March 25th at 12:00pm Pacific, will provide a cross-project, open forum for discussions on the interoperability of color workflows and standards. In the entertainment industry, the accurate handling of color values to preserve artistic intent is crucial, making…

Academy Software FoundationMarch 18, 2024

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Open Source Projects Help to Empower Artists for a Memorable Hollywood Awards Season

This year’s industry awards, from the Oscars to the Emmys to the BAFTAs and beyond, have recognized a range of eye-popping VFX-driven and animated stories. In film, some of the nominated projects include the futuristic sci-fi battles of The Creator, the multi-colored multiverses of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the death-defying…

Academy Software FoundationMarch 13, 2024

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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