Tag "Open Source"

Disney Launches Open-Source BRDF Explorer

August 9, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

Walt Disney Animation Studios is making its BRDF Explorer, a shading and rendering toolset, available to the industry through a new open-source site. BDRF stands for bidirectional reflectance distribution function, the mathematical description of how a surface reflects light. The BDRF Explorer is an advanced, physically-based shading and rendering toolset that evaluates [...]

Lucasfilm, Imageworks Release Alembic 1.0

August 10, 2011 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

The public release of Alembic 1.0, the open source project developed jointly by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd., was announced at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, BC yesterday. Alembic is a computer graphics interchange format focused on efficiently storing and sharing animation and visual effects scenes across multiple software applications. It [...]

FMX to Dig Into ‘Tron,’ Global Production, Open Source

January 25, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

Tron, global production and open source software and hardware are on the agenda of the 16th annual FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and interactive Media, set for May 3-6 in Stuttgart, Germany. “This year we would like to harness the extraordinary creativity from the digital industries to present the [...]