Pixar Animation Studios

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

Behind the Screens Diversity & Inclusion

Susan Salituro, Pixar

Behind the Screens with Susan Salituro, Engineering Manager, RenderMan Studio Support at Pixar.

rbraunOctober 30, 2020

Behind the Screens

Nick Porcino, Pixar Animation Studios

Tell us a bit about yourself – how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I saw Star Wars when I was twelve, and decided then and there “I want to help George Lucas make movies.” Not much later, Jim Blinn created an amazing animation of the…

rbraunMay 13, 2020

Announcements ASWF Projects OpenTimelineIO

OpenTimelineIO Joins Academy Software Foundation

OpenTimelineIO, an open source interchange format for editorial timeline information developed by Pixar, becomes the fifth Academy Software Foundation project.

Academy Software FoundationJuly 29, 2019

Announcements

Netflix Joins the Academy Software Foundation

Netflix becomes an ASWF Premier member.

Academy Software FoundationJuly 29, 2019

Announcements

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation Launch the Academy Software Foundation

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Linux Foundation launch the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) to support developers working on open source software for visual effects and animation.

Academy Software FoundationAugust 10, 2018