Collaboration: While our developers are among the best in the business, we don’t have a monopoly on good ideas. Our experience over the past year has reinforced that fact as great ideas have come from every corner of the globe. For some anecdotal evidence, browse through the OSL mailing list archives.

Today we are adding two more significant projects to our open source offerings. Both OpenColorIO and Alembic have been born through a collaborative process with input from experts and studios across the industry. We’re very proud of where these projects stand today, but the real value will be in seeing them adopted and improved over time—the whole idea behind open source.

Please take a moment to check out these projects. They are offered with familiar, non-restrictive open source licenses for use in your applications at studios around the world. These tools have already helped Imageworks put films on the screen with greater ease, and we hope they can do the same for you.

Rob Bredow
CTO
Sony Pictures Imageworks

   Alembic (Open Interchange Format)

   Field3D (Voxel Data Storage Library)

   Maya Reticle (Flexible Camera Guides for Maya)

   OpenColorIO (VFX & Animation Color Management)

   OSL (Open Shading Language)

   Pystring (Python String Handling in C++)

   Scala Migrations (Database Library Manager)

Sony Pictures Imageworks – Open Source