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ASWF Projects Blog OpenColorIO OpenEXR

OpenEXR and OpenColorIO in Foundry’s Nuke and Katana

Guest post by Simon Robinson, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Foundry Foundry’s products Nuke and Katana stand as widely used, industry-standard tools, used by studios for compositing, look development and lighting, respectively. The capabilities of both in creating beautiful final images and assets as seen in feature films is in huge…

Academy Software FoundationFebruary 3, 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

Behind the Screens

Jean-Francois Panisset, Consultant

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I took a computer graphics class in grad school and was instantly hooked. I spent way more time on that class than I should have, working on a primitive Z buffered renderer…

Academy Software FoundationNovember 8, 2019

Announcements

Microsoft Joins Academy Software Foundation

Microsoft joins as a Premier member.

Academy Software FoundationSeptember 13, 2019

Announcements

Apple Joins the Academy Software Foundation

Apple joins the ASWF as a Premier member.

Academy Software FoundationSeptember 13, 2019

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