Skip to main content
search
Tag

USD

Open Source Projects Help to Empower Artists for a Memorable Hollywood Awards Season ASWF ProjectsBlogMembers

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
March 13, 2024
Getting Started with the USD Working Group BlogOpen Source Days

Getting Started with the USD Working Group

Copyright 2022 Animal Logic Pty Limited. All rights reserved. One of the Academy Software Foundation’s fastest-growing Working Groups has been the USD Working Group, co-chaired by Pixar’s Nick Porcino and Apple’s Alexander Schwank. OpenUSD, short for Universal Scene Description, was developed by Pixar to address common workflow challenges and reduce…
Academy Software Foundation
August 1, 2023
Academy Software Foundation Deep Dive: MaterialX Origin Story BlogMaterialX

Academy Software Foundation Deep Dive: MaterialX Origin Story

An open standard for representing rich material and look development content in computer graphics, MaterialX enables artists to describe materials in a common, networked form, providing assets with a consistent look across renderers and platforms. Originally developed at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), it was first deployed in production on…
Academy Software Foundation
April 25, 2023
Carmen Pinto, Foundry Behind the Screens

Carmen Pinto, Foundry

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? My first job as a software developer was designing a system to sort music files by metadata for employees at an engineering company, which led to work building software to store and…
Emily Olin
April 8, 2020