Pixar to make Universal Scene Description open-sou

August 19, 2015, 09:24 AM

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Pixar Animation Studios, whose latest feature film is Inside Out,  will release Universal Scene Description software (USD) as an open-source project by summer 2016. USD addresses the growing need in the CG film and game industries for an effective way to describe, assemble, interchange and modify high-complexity virtual scenes between digital content creation tools employed by studios. At the core of USD are Pixar’s techniques for composing and non-destructively editing graphics “scene...