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Open Source Days 2025 Keynote to be Delivered by Academy Award®-winning ‘Flow’ Filmmaking Team

The Academy Software Foundation has announced the program for its annual Open Source Days event taking place August 4-11, which will include a keynote talk by the filmmaking team who worked on the animated feature Flow on August 10 in Vancouver. Held annually, Open Source Days is the leading event…

Academy Software FoundationJuly 8, 2025

ASWF Projects Blog Members

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

ASWF Projects Blog OpenCue

OpenCue Celebrates its First Anniversary

As OpenCue approaches its one year anniversary, we reflect on the progress the community has made over the last 12 months.

Academy Software FoundationMay 20, 2020

ASWF Projects Blog

Calling all students for Google Summer of Code!

We are very excited to announce that we are participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a summer program for university students to learn about, and get involved in open source. Applying to participate with the Academy Software Foundation provides a great opportunity for students who are interested in learning…

Emily OlinMarch 16, 2020

Behind the Screens

Brian Cipriano, Google

In Behind the Screens, we talk to developers and software engineers from across the motion picture and media industries to learn more about their work in visual effects and animation, how they use open source software, and their involvement in the Academy Software Foundation. Tell us a bit about yourself…

Academy Software FoundationNovember 19, 2019

ASWF Projects Blog OpenCue

Sony Pictures Imageworks Case Study – OpenCue

Earlier this year, we announced that OpenCue had become an ASWF project. Originally developed in collaboration by Google Cloud and Sony Pictures Imageworks, OpenCue is an evolution of Sony’s internal queuing system, Cue 3, which has been developed and used in production at Sony over the past 15 years to schedule…

Academy Software FoundationNovember 13, 2019

LA Pipeline Developers Meetup – OpenCue

Join the next LA Pipeline Developers Meetup to learn about OpenCue, the open source render manager developed by Google Cloud and Sony Pictures Imageworks and hosted at the Academy Software Foundation. OpenCue provides a Python- based, fully scriptable tool for managing renders. Speakers: Cottalango Leon, Sony Pictures Imageworks Benjamin Dines,…

Emily OlinNovember 8, 2019

Announcements ASWF Projects Blog

Introducing the ASWF Landscape

The ASWF Landscape provides a visual overview of the open source ecosystem for vfx and animation. Find out more and submit your project for inclusion!

John MerticSeptember 30, 2019

Announcements ASWF Projects OpenCue OpenEXR

OpenEXR and OpenCue Become Academy Software Foundation Projects

OpenEXR, developed by Industrial Light & Magic, and OpenCue, developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Google Cloud, become Academy Software Foundation projects.

Emily OlinMay 1, 2019