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Carol Payne, Netflix

Follow @carolalynn Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I graduated from the University of New Mexico with a film degree and a minor in computer science. I started working at a boutique VFX studio in Albuquerque called Pivot…

Emily OlinMarch 19, 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

Cary Phillips, Industrial Light & Magic

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? When I was a freshman in college at Johns Hopkins University in 1982, I went to a lecture by a chemical engineering professor who showed some graphs of a 3-dimensional function describing…

Academy Software FoundationMarch 4, 2020

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

Behind the Screens

Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? I have been working at Blue Sky Studios as a Software Engineer for the past 5 years. I got my first job in networking and databases after getting my undergrad degree in…

Emily OlinOctober 10, 2019

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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

Behind the Screens

Christina Tempelaar-Lietz, Epic Games

Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you get your start in visual effects and/or animation? After studying computer science at UC Berkeley, I worked at Silicon Graphics in the Advance Graphics Software group from 1997-1999 on an unreleased scenegraph API called OpenGL++. At the same time, I…

Emily OlinSeptember 25, 2019

Carol Payne, Netflix

Calling all students for Google Summer of Code!

Cary Phillips, Industrial Light & Magic

OpenEXR and OpenColorIO in Foundry’s Nuke and Katana

Brian Cipriano, Google

Sony Pictures Imageworks Case Study – OpenCue

Jean-Francois Panisset, Consultant

Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios

Introducing the ASWF Landscape

Christina Tempelaar-Lietz, Epic Games

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