Disney Open Source

Re:Disney Open Source by shredwheat on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:18PM (#12730318)

This is a showcase of larger open source projects used in the visual effects and animation industry. Several of them are contributed to by Disney engineers, but most people would not consider these Disney projects. Disney has open sourced and released some impressive open source projects over the years, and it's exciting to see their endorsement on these others.

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Re:Disney Open Source by n1gels on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:51AM (#12734274)

I run Disney's open source program. This page is a showcase of all projects from Disney business units. It's currently slanted towards animation because these organizations have been the most prolific to date. We (Disney) expect to broaden the range of projects, to other types of open source projects, for example Dragonchain https://github.com/dragonchain/dragonchain

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Re:Disney Open Source by ykl on Monday October 17, 2016 @09:00PM (#12731192)

Project: Originating and maintaining organization

USD: Pixar

OpenSubdiv: Pixar

jss-api-gem: Pixar

Munki: WDAS

Reposado: WDAS

SeExpr: WDAS

Ptex: WDAS

Partio: WDAS

Dynamica: WDAS

BRDF Explorer: WDAS

OpenEXR: ILM

Alembic: ILM and Sony Imageworks

So which one of these is not a Disney project, considering they all originated from and are maintained by Disney engineers?

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Re:Disney Open Source by berkut on Monday October 17, 2016 @09:06PM (#12731217)

Alembic was originally Sony's thing, which ILM started using in their early Katana days because their own file format wasn't good enough for use with Katana (random access and lazy loading).

Sony gave it to ILM to start using, and then open-sourced it.

I'd quibble that while ILM and Pixar employees are technically now Disney employees, it's not as if they work for Walt Disney Animation Studios directly, so it's not as clear cut as you make out.

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Re:Disney Open Source by ykl on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:41AM (#12734841)

Fair enough about Alembic.

ILM and Pixar are very much Disney employees though, as in employees of the wider Walt Disney Company (which this page is for; the specific page for WDAS is here [1]). If you get a Silver Pass and your pay comes from TWDC's bank account, I'm pretty sure you are a Disney employee. WDAS, Pixar, and ILM are all just individual subsidiaries under the wider TWDC umbrella.

[1] https://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/opensource

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