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Academy Software Foundation’s USD Working Group Launches USD Collaborative Projects Initiative

Within the USD Working Group, the USD Assets Group has been developing the USD Collective Projects Initiative as USD adoption has grown across the visual effects industry. This is an open source test bed aiming to standardize on definitions for assets and scenes to be used in production pipelines, and…

Academy Software FoundationOctober 29, 2026

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DPEL Adds New MaterialX Assets from NVIDIA

New MaterialX Teapot and Lion assets created by NVIDIA are now available for download through DPEL! Originally used to showcase neural materials, the complex, production-style reference materials are provided as MaterialX shader graphs built from standalone BSDFs assembled with layer and mix nodes.

Academy Software FoundationSeptember 15, 2026

Blog DPEL Members MoonRay Open Source Days

Open Source Days 2026 Is a Wrap — Here’s What You Missed

Open Source Days 2026 wrapped in Los Angeles with 500+ in-person attendees, standout talks, and announcements including StEM3-VP in DPEL, a MoonRay Snap installer, and three new members.

Academy Software FoundationSeptember 3, 2026

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American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Contributes StEM3-VP Project to the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) Digital Production Example Library (DPEL)

The ASC has contributed StEM3-VP, a suite of Unreal Engine environments, 2D plates, and test elements for evaluating LED volumes, to the ASWF Digital Production Example Library.

Academy Software FoundationJuly 19, 2026

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DreamWorks and Canonical Develop Snap Installer for MoonRay

DreamWorks and Canonical have released a Snap installer that makes MoonRay easy to install on 40+ Linux distributions, without building from source.

Academy Software FoundationJuly 15, 2026

Blog Wayland for Artists WG

Academy Software Foundation Launches New Wayland for Artists Working Group

The ASWF and the VES Technology Committee have launched the Wayland for Artists Working Group to explore how Linux's move from X11 to Wayland affects VFX and animation workflows.

Academy Software FoundationJune 24, 2026

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ASWF Open Source Days 2026 Schedule is Live!

The Open Source Days 2026 schedule is live, featuring a keynote from DreamWorks CTO Bill Ballew on July 19 in Los Angeles, plus Birds of a Feather sessions at SIGGRAPH on July 20.

Academy Software FoundationJune 22, 2026

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MaterialX implementation underway in Foundry’s Nuke 17.0

Foundry's Nuke 17.0 introduces native MaterialX support, letting artists view and render MaterialX Standard Surface shaders inside Nuke's new USD-based 3D system.

Academy Software FoundationApril 28, 2026

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OpenPGL Becomes an Academy Software Foundation Project

OpenPGL, the Open Path Guiding Library originally developed by Intel, joins the Academy Software Foundation as a sandbox project to bring production-ready path guiding to renderers.

Academy Software FoundationApril 8, 2026

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Fostering Community at the Academy Software Foundation’s Annual Open Source Forum

At the end of February, Academy Software Foundation members and invited guests gathered for our annual Open Source Forum, a one-day exclusive venue for industry leaders to share their learnings and collaborate to drive the future of open source software development. We were delighted to have Netflix, one of the…

Academy Software FoundationMarch 19, 2026