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Academy Software Foundation Adopts OpenAPV as a Hosted Project, Led by New Premier Member Samsung Electronics

OpenAPV is a royalty-free, open source video codec providing professional-grade video capturing and post-production capabilities for mobile devices and cloud-based tools Los Angeles, CA (October 31, 2024) – The Academy Software Foundation, the motion picture industry’s premier organization for advancing open source software development, today announced OpenAPV as its newest…

Academy Software FoundationOctober 31, 2024

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Recapping Open Source Days 2024, Our Biggest Event Yet!

The Academy Software Foundation recently wrapped up its annual Open Source Days event, bringing together the VFX and animation community to hear the latest news and developments from the Foundation and other open source initiatives. This year’s event was our biggest yet with 370 in-person attendees in Denver CO, and…

Academy Software FoundationSeptember 24, 2024

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Wrapping Up Another Successful Summer Learning Program

Some Summer Learning Program participants attending SIGGRAPH 2024 We recently wrapped up the Academy Software Foundation’s fourth annual Summer Learning Program, with 20 student participants from around the world joining us to learn more about coding and potential technical career paths within visual effects and animation. This year’s Program ran…

Academy Software FoundationSeptember 10, 2024

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Join us for Dev Days 2024 Next Month!

Developers of all experience levels are invited to participate in Dev Days, our virtual hackathon on Sept. 26-27, which helps individuals to make their first contribution to a project.

Academy Software FoundationAugust 29, 2024

Announcements Blog OpenVDB

OpenVDB Integrates NVIDIA Open Source fVDB to Enable Deep Learning on Large-Scale 3D Data

OpenVDB users will soon have access to fVDB, which provides the framework for large-scale, high-resolution spatial intelligence.

Academy Software FoundationJuly 29, 2024

Announcements Blog DPEL

DPEL Adds New Assets from Animal Logic, AWS and Adobe

DPEL adds three new assets: Animal Logic ALab v2.2, Adobe OpenPBR Shader Playground, and AWS Airship

Academy Software FoundationJuly 28, 2024

OpenRV with the Color Corrector Plugin GUI

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Open Review Initiative Releases ReviewPluginApi, Developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks for Building Cross-Platform Plugins

Academy Software FoundationJuly 28, 2024

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New OpenFX Release Streamlines Workflows and Creative Applications

New OpenFX v1.5 release introduces a suite of new features to enhance performance and flexibility for VFX software developers and artists.

Academy Software FoundationJuly 25, 2024

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Academy Software Foundation Announces Schedule for Open Source Days 2024

The Academy Software Foundation has announced the schedule for its upcoming Open Source Days event, taking place both virtually and in-person in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday, July 28. This year’s keynote will be delivered by Darin Grant, CTO of Animal Logic, with additional speakers including executives from Adobe, Amazon Web…

Academy Software FoundationJune 24, 2024

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Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenPBR 1.0

OpenPBR 1.0 is now available on GitHub! OpenPBR, a subproject of MaterialX, provides an artist-friendly new open source shading model to facilitate interchange from one software package to another. This subproject was first announced last year, and is being developed in collaboration with Autodesk and Adobe as the successor to…

Academy Software FoundationJune 4, 2024