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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

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MaterialX implementation underway in Foundry’s Nuke 17.0

Foundry’s recent Nuke 17.0 release marks a significant leap forward for the industry-standard compositing toolkit, including the first step for native MaterialX support in Nuke. Artists can now access a new MtlXStandardSurface node to view and render Autodesk Standard Surface for MaterialX shaders directly inside Nuke’s new USD-based 3D system.…

Academy Software FoundationApril 28, 2026

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MaterialX Adds Support for Slang Shader Generation

The Academy Software Foundation is excited to announce the addition of a Slang shader generator to the MaterialX ecosystem! Developed by NVIDIA and now maintained by The Khronos® Group, Slang™ is an open-source shading language and compiler, built on 15 years of research, development, and deployment experience. Slang is designed…

Academy Software FoundationJanuary 22, 2026

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Announcing OpenPBR Volume!

OpenPBR Volume is a new collaboration between Autodesk and SideFX to create a common model and draft specification for defining the look of volumetric assets with controls grounded in their physical properties.

rbraunAugust 5, 2025

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Pixar Relied on Open Source to Introduce New Emotions in ‘Inside Out 2’

© 2024 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios, Inside Out 2 shattered records as both the highest-grossing film of 2024 and the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time. The hit sequel reunites viewers with protagonist Riley Andersen, who must learn to manage a host of new emotions…

Academy Software FoundationJune 12, 2025

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This Year’s Hollywood Awards Season was Powered by Open Source

Open source software contributed to the making of award winning films like Flow, Dune: Part Two, The Wild Robot, Inside Out 2 and Moana 2.

Academy Software FoundationMarch 7, 2025

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MaterialX v1.39.2 Now Publicly Available

The Academy Software Foundation is excited to announce the release of MaterialX v1.39.2, introducing support for the Chiang Hair BSDF, Disney Principled shading model, generic color ramps, improved Worley noise, shader generation optimizations, and much more. The new Chiang Hair BSDF, contributed to the MaterialX project by NVIDIA and seen…

Academy Software FoundationJanuary 21, 2025

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Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenPBR 1.0

OpenPBR 1.0 is now available on GitHub! OpenPBR, a subproject of MaterialX, provides an artist-friendly new open source shading model to facilitate interchange from one software package to another. This subproject was first announced last year, and is being developed in collaboration with Autodesk and Adobe as the successor to…

Academy Software FoundationJune 4, 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

Announcements MaterialX USD WG

The Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSD Collaborate to Accelerate USD Development

The Academy Software Foundation and Alliance for OpenUSD announce a new liaison relationship for cross-collaboration to accelerate open source adoption and interoperability across the industry.

Academy Software FoundationMarch 11, 2024