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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 Foundation Adopts OpenImageIO as Newest Hosted Project

Today the Academy Software Foundation – the motion picture industry’s premier organization for advancing open source software development across image creation, visual effects, animation, and sound technologies – announces the adoption of OpenImageIO as its newest hosted project.  OpenImageIO (called “OIIO” for short) is a ubiquitous library for VFX applications...