Strongly welcome this venture and hope the industry as a whole can move forward because of it.:)
Strongly welcome this venture and hope the industry as a whole can move forward because of it.:)
Were there any projects outside of the VFX Platform (vfxplatform.com) you could point out?
As mentioned in this article, it seems that the VFX studios, even the small ones, are very siloed and protective. Of the studios with Github accounts, the software they release is usually stuff they don’t use any longer.
In particular look at OpenVDB (volume database). It is a wide and shallow volume format designed for performance around certain use cases. It also includes good lib support for the common simulation functions.
A lot of the other open source offerings from the animation/vfx studios are about common formats and pipelines and may be of less interest outside of the industry.
OpenVDB was a crucial step. It’s hard to live without it these days.