Kraken Rigging Framework
Kraken provides a flexible, customizable and extendable framework that leverages Fabric Engine’s API’s. Kraken rigs are portable between 3D applications and because of its use of Fabric Engine’s API’s,...
View ArticleUSD: Universal Scene Description
Universal Scene Description (USD) is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications. USD provides for...
View ArticleAFX Nuke Plugins
Useful, everyday compositing plugins for Nuke AFXSoftClip — Non-linearly reduce exposure. The algorithm was originally written for use in Eyeon Fusion. It’s much more intuitive than the Native Nuke...
View ArticleNatron
Natron is a free and open-source node-based compositing software. It has been influenced by digital compositing software such as Nuke, from which its user interface and many of its concepts are...
View ArticleACES: Academy Color Encoding System
The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is becoming the industry standard for managing color throughout the life cycle of a motion picture or television production. From image capture through editing,...
View ArticleGaffer
Gaffer is a general purpose node-based application designed for use in the visual effects industry. It provides basic tools for procedural scene generation, shader authoring, rendering, and image...
View ArticleDynamica
Dynamica is a plug-in for Maya that provides an interface to the Bullet rigid body engine. Bullet was originally created to simulate many rigid bodies quickly in a game context, but this plug-in helps...
View ArticleOpenDCP
OpenDCP is a cross-platform application to create digital cinema packages. It offers an easy to use GUI or can be scripted via a command line interface. Features JPEG2000 encoding TIFF/DPX/BMP...
View ArticleOpenSequencePlayer
OpenSequencePlayer, aka Duke, is a basic opensource high resolution image sequence player dedicated to visual effects and post-production companies. Duke relies on a plug-in system for input formats...
View ArticleOpenBatchIO
OpenBatchIO, aka Tuttle TuttleOFX is an open source image sequences processing frameworkmade up of : a set of plugins to read and write professional VFX image formats and to perform various image...
View ArticleOpenRenderManagement
OpenRenderManagement, aka Puli, is an open-source render management project. The Core project is called Puli and is entirely written in python. PuliUI is a GWT project that provides a simple web...
View ArticleOpenDisplayCalib
OpenDisplayCalib, aka ColorTribe, is an opensource cross-platform color measurement and calibration software suite for display devices. The suite is composed of three tools : – ColorHealer : a...
View ArticleTACTIC
TACTIC is a flexible web-based production asset management system. TACTIC’s features include: Securely Store Assets in a Highly Scalable, Central Repository Find Assets, Tasks and Notes with Powerful...
View ArticleOpen Subdiv
OpenSubdiv is a set of open source libraries that implement high performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. This codepath is optimized for...
View ArticleOpen VDB
OpenVDB is an open source C++ library comprising a novel hierarchical data structure and a suite of tools for the efficient storage and manipulation of sparse volumetric data discretized on...
View Articlevfxgal
Vfxgal is a geometric algorithms library for the VFX industry. It contains a very fast and robust voronoi fracturer, as well as several other geometric algorithms (plane-clip, hull-clip etc). Vfxgal...
View ArticleRez
Rez is an integrated package configuration, build and deployment system for software. With Rez you can request a set of packages, and it will create a resolved shell that contains all the dependencies...
View ArticleAlembic
Alembic is an open computer graphics interchange framework. Alembic distills complex, animated scenes into a non-procedural, application-independent set of baked geometric results. This ‘distillation’...
View Articlepimath
Pimath is a boost.python binding for the IMath library that is part of the OpenEXR project. Pimath binds the Imath API as closely as possible. Each hpp file contains a comment block at the top,...
View ArticleSeExpr
Arithmetic expressions appear in almost every animation system ever created. Being able to embed an expression language in a piece of custom software allows an amazing degree of artistic freedom. At...
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