Open Source Days 2026

Sunday July 19, 2026 7:30am - 5:30pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

9:30am PDT

Keynote: State of the Foundation - David Morin, Academy Software Foundation

Sunday July 19, 2026 9:30am - 9:50am PDT

Founded in 2018 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation, the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) is the motion picture industry’s premier organization for advancing open source software development.

David Morin, Executive Director of the Academy Software Foundation, will share updates and milestones from the past year along with a look ahead and what's to come.

Presenters

David Morin

Executive Director, Academy Software Foundation

ASWF OSD26 DavidMorin pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 9:30am - 9:50am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Keynote Sessions

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9:50am PDT

Keynote: How to Train Your Renderer: MoonRay’s Journey from DreamWorks’ Dragons to the ASWF - Bill Ballew, Chief Technology Officer, DreamWorks Animation

Sunday July 19, 2026 9:50am - 10:10am PDT

Explore the evolution of MoonRay as it transitions from a proprietary DreamWorks tool to a cornerstone of open-source rendering. We’ll cover the technical challenges of "breaking out" of the studio, the strategy and lessons learned on building a sustainable community, and why the Academy Software Foundation is the vital next chapter for the project and the path forward.

Presenters

Bill Ballew

CTO, Dreamworks

25+ years of experience in the software engineering field with more than 15 years focused on leading agile engineering teams and software development organizations, delivering state of the art solutions to achieve business goals. Over 20 years experience building and delivering state-of-the-art... Read More →

Bill Ballew Keynote ASWF Open Source Days 2026 pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 9:50am - 10:10am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes

10:10am PDT

Project Fast Forward: A Tour of the ASWF Landscape - Carol Payne, Wizard

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:10am - 10:30am PDT

The Academy Software Foundation stewards the open source software that powers modern film, VFX, and animation — from the image formats and color pipelines in virtually every production to the scene description, asset I/O, and review tools that tie pipelines together. Get the TL;DR on every single ASWF Project and Working Group (more than 20!) before the BoFs at SIGGRAPH and virtual town halls...
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Presenters

Carol Payne

Founding Color Science Lead, Wizard

Carol Payne has served as the Technical Steering Committee Chair for OpenColorIO since 2021. She started her career in VFX, working for six years at Industrial Light & Magic, most prominently as Color & Imaging Engineer, and moved to Netflix from 2019-2023 as an Imaging Technologist... Read More →

Project Fast Forward Carol Payne 2 pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:10am - 10:30am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

10:30am PDT

OpenVDB: A File Format for the Next Decade - Dan Bailey, ILM & Ken Museth, NVIDIA

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:50am PDT

OpenVDB A File Format for the Next Decade Dan Bailey pdf

OpenVDB was the first project accepted into the ASWF in 2018 and has continued to establish itself as the ubiquitous choice for sparse volumes in VFX and Animation. However, the file format underlying it has remained unchanged since 2014. The newer tools and techniques available today make a strong case for modernization. This session will provide an overview of some of the key open-source file...
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Presenters

Ken Museth

Sr Director of the High-Fidelity Physics Research, NVIDIA

Dan Bailey

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ILM

Dan leads the FX/Crowds Engineering team at ILM where he has been for the past 9 years. He has been a member of the VDB Technical Steering Committee since the adoption of the project into the ASWF and an active contributor to the project since 2014. He won a SciTech Award in 2024... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:50am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

10:50am PDT

Productionizing XStudio: A Studio's Journey From Fork To Floor - Julien Hery, Rodeo FX

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PDT

Productionizing XStudio A Studio Journey From Fork To Floor Julien Hery(1) pdf

Open-source DCCs ship a generic core; studios need something calibrated to their pipeline, their shows, and their dailies room. We argue that gap should be closed by small teams shipping in days, not quarters — and that AI-augmented engineering finally makes that realistic without devolving into vibe coding. When Rodeo FX adopted xStudio, the upstream release was the foundation. In months, a...
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Presenters

Julien Hery

VFX Supervisor at Rodeo FX, Rodeo FX

VFX Supervisor Julien Héry’s work includes HBO’s series Dune: Prophecy, Netflix’s biggest hit Stranger Things seasons 4 and 5, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, superhero fan favorite WandaVision, and the critically acclaimed film The Aeronauts. Joining the Rodeo... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

11:10am PDT

Coffee Break

Sunday July 19, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am PDT

Coffee, Tea, and Water
Coffee Cake (V)
Croissants (V)
Fruit Skewers (VE, GF)

Sponsored By:

Sunday July 19, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

11:40am PDT

OpenColorIO Configs, HDR/SDR Views, and ACES-Aligned Look Design for Japanese 2D Animation - Tomohiro Hasegawa, Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc.

Sunday July 19, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PDT

OpenColorIO Configs, HDRSDR Views, and ACES Aligned Look Design for Japanese 2D Animation Tomohiro Hasegawa pdf

This session presents two color-management case studies from Japanese 2D animation, based on Tomohiro’s work as a post-production engineer collaborating with production teams and introducing OpenColorIO workflows. The production case discusses a tailored OpenColorIO config and HDR/SDR tone mapping developed after evaluating ACES configs and ACES RRT. It focuses on preserving painted artwork...
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Presenters

Tomohiro Hasegawa

Color Imaging Engineer, Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc.

Tomohiro Hasegawa is a Color Imaging Engineer at Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc. in Tokyo, leading R&D in color management, image processing, and machine learning for motion picture workflows. He develops color pipelines and imaging systems for contemporary production... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

12:00pm PDT

On Color Fidelity: Applying 2D Scene-Referred Color Reproduction Standards to 3D Artwork Reproduction - Scott Geffert, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:20pm PDT

Two decades ago Van Gogh’s painting of Two Sunflowers played a key role in shaping best practice for artwork reproduction that ultimately led to international standards. These standards defined scene-referred imaging validation techniques used worldwide to this day for artwork reproduction. In July 2025 the Metropolitan Museum of Art Imaging team set out to create new 2D and 3D images of this...
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Presenters

Scott Geffert

General Manager, Imaging, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scott Geffert is the General Manger of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Imaging Department. Scott is deeply involved with 2D and 3D standards development and is an active member of the International Standards Organization (ISO), the Alliance for Open USD (AOUSD), Academy Software Foundation... Read More →

On Color Fidelity Scott Geffert pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:20pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

12:20pm PDT

The State of Lens Metadata in VFX: An Open Survey for Better Pipelines - Gary Keller, Digital Camera Systems - DCS

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:20pm - 12:40pm PDT

Lens metadata should connect what happened on set to what happens in post, but in many productions it is incomplete, mistrusted or lost before it reaches VFX. In this 10-minute lightning talk, Gary Keller, General Manager of DCS, will introduce an industry survey designed to measure where lens metadata breaks down, how often it affects matchmove, layout, compositing and virtual production...
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Presenters

Gary Keller

General Manager, Digital Camera Systems - DCS

The State of Lens Metadata in VFX Gary Keller pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:20pm - 12:40pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

12:30pm PDT

Attendee Lunch

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

12:30pm PDT

D&I and SLP Meet-Up

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT

Lunch meetup and group photo for ASWF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and any former or current volunteer for the Summer Learning Program (SLP). Don't forget to wear your ASWF merch!

Sunday July 19, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

2:10pm PDT

Sponsored Session: Move Your Data Once: High-Performance Open Source NFS Caching with KNFSD File Cache - Sean Wallitsch, AWS

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:25pm PDT

Every VFX and animation shot lives on shared storage — but when render farms burst into the cloud, that storage suddenly has to feed thousands of nodes across a long-haul link back to the studio. KNFSD File Cache is an open source NFS caching solution built for exactly this problem: it re-exports a studio's on-prem NFS source through the Linux kernel and caches actively-read assets on local NVMe...
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Presenters

Sean Wallitsch

Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Sean Wallitsch is a Solutions Architect for Visual Compute at Amazon Web Services, drawing on 20 years of experience as a compositor and pipeline developer at studios including Rhythm & Hues and DreamWorks Animation.

KNFSD File Cache – Sean Wallitsch(3) pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:25pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

2:20pm PDT

ASC StEM3-VP - Virtual Production Evaluation Assets Joining DPEL - Bill Baggelaar, Rocketfrog Consulting; Jay Holben, Independent Director & Producer

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:20pm - 2:40pm PDT

ASC StEM3 VP Virtual Production Evaluation Assets Joining DPEL Baggelaar pdf

Because of new developments in realtime game engines and large LED volumes, in-camera visual effects (ICVFX) has become a common form of virtual production used by cinematographers and filmmakers worldwide. Yet there is no Standard Evaluation Material for ICVFX available to filmmakers. Developed by the Motion Imaging Technology Council (MITEC) of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC),...
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Presenters

Jay Holben

Independent Director & Producer, Adakin Productions

Jay Holben is an award-winning independent director and producer living in Los Angeles, California. His feature film work includes Before the Dawn, Of Fortune and Gold, and The Invoking 2. A former cinematographer, he is an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers... Read More →

Bill Baggelaar

Entertainment Technology Leader, Rocketfrog Consulting

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:20pm - 2:40pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

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2:40pm PDT

Tiled Mipmap Video: OpenAPV in Unreal Engine 5.8 - Ryan Mayeda, Epic Games

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:40pm - 2:50pm PDT

Unreal Engine 5.8 introduces the new Tiled Mipmap Video format, which delivers high-performance in-engine video playback with tiled streaming, smooth scrubbing, HDR support, and efficient compression, reducing the storage and bandwidth demands of high-resolution EXR workflows for ICVFX and live event production. TMV is an extension to the OpenAPV codec and this talk details Epic Games' work to...
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Presenters

Ryan Mayeda

Lead Technical Product Manager, Virtual Production, Epic Games

Ryan Mayeda is a Lead Technical Product Manager at Epic Games. He focuses primarily on Virtual Production tools in Unreal Engine for the Film/TV industry such as In-Camera VFX, nDisplay, Movie Render Graph, Composure, and many more.

Tiled Mipmap Video Ryan Mayeda pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:40pm - 2:50pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

2:50pm PDT

Building Studio-safe AI Open Source Workflows - Collin Dutter, Griptape by Foundry

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:50pm - 3:10pm PDT

Building studio safe AI open source workflows Collin Dutter pdf

Security, trust, and code safety is a top priority for VFX, animation, and production studios. New AI resources are coming to market daily, but adoption can’t come at the risk of safety and security. While solutions built on open source technology have clear benefits, from reducing operational costs to simplified licensing, customizations and modifications without the right guardrails may...
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Presenters

Collin Dutter

Software Engineer, Griptape by Foundry

Collin Dutter is a Software Engineer on the Griptape team at Foundry. There he maintains the Griptape Framework, a Python framework for building LLM applications, and Griptape Nodes, a node-based tool for automating AI pipelines. Before that, he spent seven years building IoT systems... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 2:50pm - 3:10pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

3:10pm PDT

Coffee Break

Sunday July 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm PDT

Coffee, Tea, and Water
Brownies and Blondies
Vegan Chocolate Bark (VE, GF)
Individual Bags of Assorted Popcorn

Sponsored By:

Sunday July 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom Foyer

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

3:45pm PDT

Adopting Open Standards: Blender’s Journey on Supporting OpenPBR - Sebastian Herholz & Francesco Siddi, Blender

Sunday July 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:05pm PDT

Adopting Open Standards Blenders Journey on Supporting OpenPBR Sebastian Herholz Francesco Siddi(1) pdf

Industry standards like MaterialX, USD, and OpenPBR are key to enabling collaboration between individual artists and across production pipelines that use different DCC applications. OpenPBR is a unified shading model that allows artists to design and share assets between different applications while preserving their appearance. In this talk, we will present insights into Blender’s journey...
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Presenters

Sebastian Herholz

Senior Developer and Researcher, Blender

Sebastian Herholz is a ray tracing engineer and light transport researcher at Intel.
His main research work focuses on advanced importance sampling techniques such as path guiding.
In 2020, joined Intel to work on making state-of-the-art rendering algorithms ready for daily use... Read More →

Francesco Siddi

CEO, Blender

Francesco joined Blender in 2012 as a 3D artist and has been contributing to the project ever since in various roles, organizing events, designing and developing software and producing open movie projects.

Sunday July 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:05pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

4:05pm PDT

Bringing Arbitrary MaterialX BSDF Networks To RenderMan XPU - Francisco Gonzalez, Pixar Animation Studios; Jonathan Stone, Lucasfilm ADG

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:20pm PDT

Bringing Arbitrary BSDF Networks To RenderMan XPU Jonathan Stone and Fran Gonzalez pdf

In this presentation we will talk about the cross Lucasfilm/Pixar collaboration to bring arbitrary MaterialX BSDF networks to RenderMan XPU. We'll highlight the approach we took to allow the same source code to run seamlessly on CPU and GPUs -- opening the door to MaterialX Standard Surface and OpenPBR. We will use a new asset we will make available to the community as the basis for our talk.

Presenters

Jonathan Stone

Lead Rendering Engineer, Materials and Shading, Lucasfilm ADG

Jonathan Stone is a Lead Rendering Engineer in the Lucasfilm Advanced Development Group and the lead developer of MaterialX. He has designed real-time rendering and look-development technology for Lucasfilm since 2010, working on productions including The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The... Read More →

Francisco Gonzalez

Senior Software Engineer, Pixar

I’m a Staff Software Engineer on Pixar’s RenderMan team, working on RenderMan XPU, Pixar’s next-generation CPU+GPU renderer for animation and VFX. Before Pixar, I was Lead GPU Engineer at Next Limit Technologies working on Maxwell Render. I hold M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:20pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

4:25pm PDT

Typhoon: A Reference Renderer for OpenUSD Interoperability - Anders Langlands & Masuo Suzuki, NVIDIA

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:25pm - 4:35pm PDT

A Reference Renderer for OpenUSD Interoperability Anders Langlands pdf

In order to achieve the dream of reliable, consistent results in lighting and materials across OpenUSD applications, we need a reference implementation and compliance test suite for the various emerging standards across such projects as UsdLux and MaterialX for developers and users to refer to. This talk describes an open-source, cross-platform, reference path tracer implemented as an extension...
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Presenters

Masuo Suzuki

Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Anders Langlands

Director, Omniverse Rendering, NVIDIA

Anders is a twenty-year visual effects veteran, where he served as an artist, developer and creative supervisor, garnering three Academy Award nominations.

Today, as product manager for Rendering in NVIDIA Omniverse, he is focused on physically accurate simulation of all kinds of sensors at scale to build a platform for Physical AI using OpenUSD... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:25pm - 4:35pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

4:35pm PDT

OpenUSD Proposals Across Domains: Challenges and Methodology - Aaron Luk, NVIDIA & Nick Porcino, Pixar

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:35pm - 4:55pm PDT

OpenUSD Proposals Across Domains Challenges and Methodology Aaron Luk Nick Porcino pdf

One of the primary challenges with OpenUSD proposals is aligning on the problem statement that cross-domain communities agree on. OpenUSD’s reach extends beyond film and animation, into gaming, robotics, simulation, and geospatial analytics. That growth strains the proposal process - the community is increasingly diverse with unique, domain specific requirements and procedures. Groups new to...
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Presenters

Aaron Luk

Director of Product Management, NVIDIA

Aaron Luk is Director of Product Management leading OpenUSD Ecosystem efforts at NVIDIA, including oversight, integration, and optimization of USD and Hydra paradigms across all components of Omniverse. Previously, Aaron co-developed and deployed USD into production pipelines at... Read More →

Nick Porcino

Sr. Software Engineer, Tools: Story & Editorial, Pixar Animation Studios

I’m a member of the Pixar Story and Editorial Tools team, where we collaborate with Pixar’s storytellers on innovative tools and workflows at every stage of the story creation process, from storyboarding and virtual scouting, to composing media into versions of a film.

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:35pm - 4:55pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

4:55pm PDT

BowerBot: A Tool-Based AI Agent for Production OpenUSD - Arturo Morales Rangel, Binary Core LLC

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:55pm - 5:05pm PDT

BowerBot started as a way to import assets from different sources like Sketchfab and place them into OpenUSD scenes organized the way production pipelines expect, so artists could focus on refining layout composition instead of fixing layer structure. The project has since grown into an Apache 2.0 open-source AI agent that authors full OpenUSD scenes from natural language while following...
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Presenters

Arturo Morales Rangel

Founder, Binary Core LLC

Arturo Morales Rangel is the founder of Binary Core LLC.
Technical Director and Pipeline Engineer since 2014, with
experience across film studios, Microsoft, and Meta on
immersive computing and reality labs projects. Visual Effects
Society (VES) member since 2018. Creator of... Read More →

BowerBot Arturo Morales Rangel pdf

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:55pm - 5:05pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Slides Attached Yes

5:05pm PDT

From Source to Screen: How Walt Disney Animation Studios Uses, Vets, and Gives Back to Open Source - Rebecca Bever, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Sunday July 19, 2026 5:05pm - 5:25pm PDT

Walt Disney Animation Studios has been part of the open source community since the Academy Software Foundation's founding in 2018, but being a good member of that community takes more than just running the tools. This talk walks through Walt Disney Animation Studios' relationship with open source in three parts: why open source is foundational to making a film at the scale and ambition of a...
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Presenters

Rebecca Bever

Director of Production Technology, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Rebecca Bever is a Director of Production Technology at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where she leads teams at the intersection of filmmaking and software innovation. With nearly 15 years in the Media & Entertainment industry, her career has spanned Visual Effects, Animation, and... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 5:05pm - 5:25pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3+4

Session Presention

5:30pm PDT

Beers of a Feather

Sunday July 19, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Prank Bar

Catch up with old friends and make new ones during our popular Beers of a Feather social event at Prank Bar.Sponsored by: Menu:Prank’d Cauliflower (VE)Blue corn taco trio | Filet mignon steak (GF) - cilantro chimichurri, avocado pico de gallo, Tempura shrimp - chipotle cream, mustard slaw, avocado, and grilled pineapple salsa, Vegan (VE/GF) - avocado mash, zucchini, heirloom cherry tomatoes,...
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Sunday July 19, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Prank Bar 1100 S Hope St, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Breaks + Meals + Special Events

10:00am PDT

OpenEXR - Kimball Thurston, Wētā FX

Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Open discussion with project maintainers about new features and future directions.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.

Presenters

Kimball Thurston

Chief Technology Officer, Wētā FX

Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

10:00am PDT

OpenVDB - Ken Museth, NVIDIA, Dan Bailey, ILM

Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Significant changes in the upcoming major release of OpenVDB.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.

Presenters

Dan Bailey

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ILM

Ken Museth

Sr Director of the High-Fidelity Physics Research, NVIDIA

Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

11:00am PDT

ASWF Machine Learning Working Group - Tommy Burnette, ILM, Cottalango Leon, Sony Pictures Imageworks & Cameron Target, Walt Disney Studios

Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.Updates from the ASWF Machine Learning Working Group. Ongoing progress on the DNA development and feedback from early adopters. New initiative for mutual learning sessions on the topics of interest in the AI/ML domain in VFX/Animation industry.This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the...
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Presenters

Cameron Target

VFX Coordinator, Walt Disney Studios

Fascinated by production team workflows, huge fan of Denis Villenueve movies, originally from Hong Kong.

Tommy Burnette

ILM

Cottalango Leon

Software Architect, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Cottalango Leon is a Distinguished Engineer at Sony Pictures Imageworks, leading the development of artist tools used in award-winning films including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Over the Moon, and Hotel Transylvania. He received an Academy Award® for Scientific and Technical... Read More →

Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

11:00am PDT

MoonRay - Randy Packer & Jon Lanz, DreamWorks Animation

Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

ASWF migration update, presentations and demos, roadmap and open discussion.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.

Presenters

Jon Lanz

Sr. Software Engineer, DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

Randy Packer

Sr. Manager, Production Software, DreamWorks Animation

Randy is sr. manager of rendering, shading and machine learning teams at DreamWorks, having started in 2015 as his first foray into the animation and the film industry. Randy's led the efforts of advancing MoonRay and it's feature set and related technologies since prior to it's usage... Read More →

Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

12:00pm PDT

ASWF Diversity & Inclusion Working Group - Carol Payne, Academic Software Foundation

Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.The Diversity & Inclusion WG at the Academy Software Foundation breaks down barriers to access and increases connections among participants in the Foundation’s projects, community, and the VFX & Animation industry. If you are passionate about the Entertainment industry and looking for a way to get involved, please...
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Presenters

Carol Payne

Founding Color Science Lead, Wizard

Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

12:00pm PDT

Open Review Initiative, including OpenRV and xSTUDIO - Erik Strauss, Sohonet; Guillaume Brossard, Autodesk; Ted Waine, DNEG; Sam Richards, Independent; Will Wira, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.Updates from the Open Review Initiative team. Demonstration of the latest work in live collaboration protocols including support for annotations. Progress and community updates from OpenRV and xSTUDIO, as well as our work on Encoding, and Plugin Development.This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by...
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Presenters

Will Wira

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Erik Strauss

Chief Product Officer, Sohonet

I am a technology leader with experience in building organizations that develop creative content tools and media processing at scale. I'm passionate about computer graphics and distributed collaboration. I thrive in areas where innovation enables creators to tell incredible stories... Read More →

Guillaume Brossard

Director of Engineering, Autodesk

Ted Waine

Expert Software Developer, DNEG

After studying physics and optics as an undergraduate Ted started his career in Medical Imaging before entering VFX in 2003, joining DNEG's R&D team. Since then Ted has worked on a wide variety of projects involving, among many things, computer vision, image based modelling, application... Read More →

Sam Richards

Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

1:00pm PDT

OpenTimelineIO - Eric Reinecke, Netflix

Monday July 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.OpenTimelineIO is an interchange format and API for editorial timeline information. Please join us for an overview of what OpenTimelineIO does and some updates from the past year.This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at...
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Presenters

Eric Reinecke

Sr. Software Engineer, Video Engineering, Netflix

Monday July 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

1:30pm PDT

MaterialX and OpenPBR - Jonathan Stone, Lucasfilm & Adrien Herubel, Autodesk

Monday July 20, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.Join MaterialX and OpenPBR Technical Steering Committee members and contributors as they share recent milestones, future plans and answer questions from the community.This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at...
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Presenters

Jonathan Stone

Lead Rendering Engineer, Materials and Shading, Lucasfilm ADG

Adrien Herubel

Director, Software Engineering, Autodesk

Monday July 20, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

2:00pm PDT

ACES - Scott Dyer, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Monday July 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.Join ACES Technical Steering Committee members and fellow imaging professionals for an open, forward-looking discussion on the digital color workflows. Bring your feedback, challenges, and ideas as we discuss current feature support, cross-application interoperability, and what ACES should tackle next.This BoF is...
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Presenters

Scott Dyer

Senior Imaging Engineer, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences

Monday July 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

3:00pm PDT

Adopting OpenUSD and MaterialX in Production Pipelines - Paolo Selva, 880 Productions NZ and Martin Davies, LAIKA

Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Presentations and open discussion about integrating OpenUSD and MaterialX in production pipelines, with successes and failures, possible how-tos.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.

Presenters

Martin Davies

VFX Pipeline Manager, LAIKA

Paolo Selva

Principal Engineer, 880 Productions NZ

Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

3:00pm PDT

Color Interop Forum - Carol Payne

Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.Join us for a discussion about the Color Interop Forum specification work over the last year! Color Interop covers a broad area - beyond OCIO and ACES and into metadata, DCC best practices, color management in USD and broader 3D ecosystems, and more. We have three new specifications to share and discuss, and a few...
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Presenters

Carol Payne

Founding Color Science Lead, Wizard

Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

4:00pm PDT

OpenColorIO - Carol Payne, Wizard & Doug Walker, AutoDesk

Monday July 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.OCIO is an open source color management solution hosted at the Academy Software Foundation. Join us for an informal community discussion around current/planned OCIO development, implementation, and workflows.This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open...
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Presenters

Carol Payne

Founding Color Science Lead, Wizard

Doug Walker

Tech Lead, Autodesk

Doug is the Technology Lead for Color Science at Autodesk, working on products such as Flame, Maya, Arnold, and Shotgrid. He is also very active in open source projects, serving as the Chief Architect on the OpenColorIO Technical Steering Committee and as part of the Architectural... Read More →

Monday July 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

4:00pm PDT

The USD Collective Projects - Paolo Selva, 880 Productions NZ and Martin Davies, LAIKA

Monday July 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT