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Hollywood gets its own open-source foundation
- thefounder 8y agoShould we expect movies released with open source av codecs anytime soon?
- confounded 8y agoIt sounds like the emerging standard will be to streame/distribute via the open-source AV1 codec... and then cover it in Widevine DRM. Probably handled by the TPM they upsold you for security.
- xvilka 8y agoGood chance for GIMP to finish GTK+3 transition.
- tjpnz 8y ago>The founding members include a number of high-powered media and tech companies, including Animal Logic, Blue Sky Studios, Cisco, DreamWorks, Epic Games, Google, Intel, SideFX, Walt Disney Studios and Weta Digital. Having worked for one of these companies I'm a bit surprised to see ILM's absence from the list. We were pretty big users of their OpenEXR image format.
- RyJones 8y agoOne very small irony is the Linux Foundation (my employer) is based in LDAC, and shares facilities with ILM/Lucas. It's been fun watching the run up to this new foundation becoming public. Had to pick a new acronym due too namespace collision ;)
- CyberDildonics 8y agoILM created OpenEXR.
- mrec 8y agoYes, that's what GP is saying.
- quizme2000 8y agoILM would be included under Disney.
- davvid 8y agoILM is involved, as is Pixar. Just a guess ~ the press release may have been edited for brevity (like this comment).
- madmax108 8y agoHaving interned at DreamWorks, it was amazing to see how much the studio depends on Open Source software... Right from having everyone use Redhat systems across the board to massive use of Python for a lot of the pipelining and processes and internal tools, DW is a strong company when it comes to Open source usage (contributions as with most companies can be improved quite a bit). Strongly welcome this venture and hope the industry as a whole can move forward because of it.:)
- florabuzzword 8y agoVery cool. 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.
- pzone 8y agoThe reason for this organization is that many of the key components of the VFX platform are open source, but not open governance. They live inside Dreamworks, Disney, etc. but without any sort of public collaboration model. You can't contribute to the Alembic file format unless you work at Imageworks, you can't contribute to EXR unless you're at ILM, and you can't contribute to OpenVDB unless you're at Dreamworks.
- wandersandwich 8y agohttps://research.dreamworks.com/open-source-projects/ https://research.dreamworks.com/open-source-projects/ 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.
- florabuzzword 8y ago
- a-b 8y ago... with DRM & Hookers (c) Futurama
- thatgerhard 8y agoThis looks like a pr stunt to try and put the mpaa in a better light after thy sued everyone.
- CyberDildonics 8y agoIs the MPAA a part of this? It seems like visual effects and animation companies to me, who already rely heavily on the entire linux eco system.
- matt-attack 8y agoNo, this was an effort by the Aacademy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Specifically, their Science and Technology Council.
- appleflaxen 8y agoHollywood wants to make sure they don't get stung by the draconian copyright laws they create, lobby, and pass. Oppose them by * boycotting hollywood movies * making copyright liberalization a topic for your elected officials * creating and distributing art under open licenses
- olavk 8y agoHow would you finance movies made under an open license? Movies are expensive to produce.
- ahartmetz 8y agoFalse dichotomy. There is something between forever minus one day and btw you'll go to jail for copying a movie and open license.
- Fukkaudeku 8y agoI bet you feel very clever
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- gtaveras 8y agoInteresting. However, it was very confusing when reading a section which attempted to link Nick Cannon - CTO of Disney, but instead linked towards Nick (Scott) Cannon the enternainer.
- fenwick67 8y agoTBH I thought they were one and the same when I read the article, but yeah they're different people.
- BenoitP 8y agoLooking at the founding members, I am surprised there are no GPU vendors; which Hollywood must make an extensive use of.
- rebuilder 8y agoBased on having attended a presentation on this at FMX this year, the main practical goal at the moment seems to be to help maintain low-level open source tools everyone relies on, like OpenEXR. It didn't sound like disrupting the software ecosystem by funding open-source alternatives to current "industry standard" tools was on the agenda, just making sure what is already in use continues to work. Overall, I got the impression this was a serious undertaking with a pragmatic approach to solving problems for the VFX industry, so here's hoping it works out.