New Academy Software program Basis (ASWF) members be part of forward of Open Supply Days, July 19-20, strengthening collaboration and advancing open supply applied sciences for the movement image and media industries
Abstract
- ASWF new members are CIQ as a Premier Member, Evercast as a Common Member and Rochester Institute of Expertise as an Affiliate Member
- Open Supply Days is July 19–20, 2026 on the J.W. Marriott L.A. Dwell in Los Angeles, held alongside SIGGRAPH 2026
- Invoice Ballew, CTO of DreamWorks Animation, to keynote Open Supply Days and speak about MoonRay’s growth from DreamWorks’ Dragons to ASWF
LOS ANGELES, July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), the main open supply basis for advancing open supply software program in movement photos, visible results, and animation, at this time introduced three new member organizations forward of its annual Open Source Days occasion, going down July 19–20, 2026 in Los Angeles. CIQ has joined as a Premier Member, Evercast as a Common Member and Rochester Institute of Expertise (RIT) as an Affiliate Member.
“We’re happy to welcome CIQ, Evercast and Rochester Institute of Expertise to the Academy Software program Basis,” stated David Morin, govt director of the Academy Software program Basis. “Every group brings beneficial experience that can strengthen our group – infrastructure that scales render farms, real-time evaluation instruments that maintain artists collaborating throughout studios, and the educational packages coaching the following era on OpenColorIO, ACES, and different open supply instruments earlier than they ever set foot on a manufacturing flooring.”
As members of the Academy Software program Basis, CIQ, Evercast, and Rochester Institute of Expertise could have alternatives to contribute engineering experience, take part in technical working teams, collaborate on open supply tasks and assist form the technical route of the ASWF. Their participation will increase the group, bringing collectively know-how suppliers, studios, software program distributors and educational establishments to advance the open supply instruments and requirements foundational to fashionable content material creation.
Hosted yearly by the Academy Software program Basis, Open Supply Days is the main occasion devoted to open supply software program for visible results, animation, and digital content material creation. This 12 months’s occasion will happen in Los Angeles on July 19-20, 2026, coinciding with the SIGGRAPH 2026 Convention, and incorporates a keynote tackle by DreamWorks Animation CTO Invoice Ballew on “The way to Prepare Your Renderer: MoonRay’s Journey from DreamWorks’ Dragons to the ASWF.” Area is proscribed; register here to attend.
Supporting Quotes
“Open supply has all the time been the spine of manufacturing pipelines in movie and visible results, and as AI transforms what these pipelines can do, that basis issues greater than ever. CIQ is proud to affix the Academy Software program Basis as a Premier Member and to assist the inventive trade construct on infrastructure that’s open, resilient, and constructed for the size of what comes subsequent.”
– Bjorn Hovland, President, CIQ
“We’re thrilled to affix the Academy Software program Basis. At Evercast, we construct high-quality, real-time evaluation options that allow inventive groups to share content material and collaborate throughout the third-party instruments they already use. This software-agnostic strategy displays our perception that open codebases, shared requirements, and numerous groups are one of the simplest ways for software program to serve content material creators worldwide. We look ahead to collaborating with this wonderful group at such a singular second in our trade.”
– Jose Aguerre, VP of Engineering, Evercast
“RIT is happy to affix the Academy Software program Basis and take part in advancing creation and adoption of open supply instruments for the leisure trade. By way of an extended partnership with Linux Basis and institution of our personal free and open-source heart of excellence on campus, we’ve inspired college students, college, and alumni to contribute to necessary open supply tasks. The movement image science, movie and animation, and video games communities from RIT, specifically, have already been energetic with ACES, OpenColorIO, O3DE, and different ASWF tasks and we’re excited to offer our help going ahead to this necessary work.”
– David Lengthy, Director and Professor, RIT MAGIC Heart | MAGIC Spell Studios, Rochester Institute of Technology
Concerning the Academy Software program Basis
Developed in partnership by the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences and the Linux Basis, the Academy Software program Basis offers a world-class dwelling for open supply software program builders within the movement image and broader media industries to share sources and collaborate on applied sciences for picture creation, visible results, animation and sound. The Academy Software program Basis is dwelling to 22 tasks together with ACES, MaterialX, OpenEXR, OpenColorI, and OpenVDB. For extra details about the Academy Software program Basis, go to https://www.aswf.io/.
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