Sony Pictures Open Sources Software Used to Make 'Into the Spider-Verse' (variety.com) 38
An anonymous reader quotes Variety:
Sony Pictures Imageworks has contributed a software tool used to create movies like "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," "Hotel Transylvania 3," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" to the open source community. OpenColorIO, a tool used for color management during the production process, has become the second software project of the Academy Software Foundation, an industry-wide open source association spearheaded by the Linux Foundation.
Sony Pictures Imageworks has for some time given the industry free and open access to OpenColorIO under a modified BSD license. By contributing the tool to the Academy Software Foundation, the studio hopes to encourage the community to take charge of the future of the tool, said Sony Pictures Imageworks vice president and head of software development Michael Ford. "We want to contribute OpenColorIO back to the community that relies on it, and the Academy Software Foundation is the natural fit," he said.
Sony Pictures Imageworks has for some time given the industry free and open access to OpenColorIO under a modified BSD license. By contributing the tool to the Academy Software Foundation, the studio hopes to encourage the community to take charge of the future of the tool, said Sony Pictures Imageworks vice president and head of software development Michael Ford. "We want to contribute OpenColorIO back to the community that relies on it, and the Academy Software Foundation is the natural fit," he said.
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The big brand tools to make create content are not free.
Don't jump the gun. (Score:2, Informative)
Sony Pictures Imageworks has contributed a software tool used to create movies like "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," "Hotel Transylvania 3," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" to the open source community.
This is false. OpenColorIO was not used to create these movies, OpenColorIO is just one of the many tools used in their production. OpenColorIO is specifically for dealing with colors, not rendering 3d stuff or anything else, just colors.
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contributed a software tool
Are you of Eastern European / Russian background? As *a* group those English as *a* Second Language people are often confused by *the* use of articles in *the* English language. For everyone else *the* article is very important, especially when talking about *the* difference between "a" and "the".
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Thanks for the English lesson but that was quoted from the summary. -_-
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I know. The summary is using the English correctly. By using the non-definitive article "a" instead of the definitive article "the" the summary does not imply that OpenColorIO is the only tool used.
The English lesson was to help you interpret what was said, and point out why you may have been confused enough to post about it.
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I know. The summary is using the English correctly. By using the non-definitive article "a" instead of the definitive article "the" the summary does not imply that OpenColorIO is the only tool used.
Oh I see what you are saying. However, one can contribute "a" tool and still have it be "the" tool that was used. "a" implies it's part of a group but does not specify the group to which it belongs.
More importantly, I was trying to point out it wasn't even the primary tool used. You will notice there are other posts that ask about 3d rendering which only adds credence to the relevance of my post.
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"a" implies it's part of a group
Exactly.
More importantly, I was trying to point out it wasn't even the primary tool used.
No doubt, since the summary made no such claim.
You will notice there are other posts that ask about 3d rendering which only adds credence to the relevance of my post.
I found someone else who doesn't understand english so the english is wrong?
Re: Don't jump the gun. (Score:2)
It's probably also worth noting OpenColorIO has been open sourced for a very long time. The ACTUAL story is that SONY are handing it over to community management
vs Blender (Score:3)
How well does this software compare to Blender? Blender is difficult to use but is very good at what it does.
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I wack machine with hammer, machine work. I wack machine with wrench, machine work. You no work, maybe I grab one and wack you, you work.
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How well does this software compare to Blender?
You are comparing apples and oranges. The software they are contributing toward is only for modifying colors and it won't render a single polygon.
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Yeah. I read that it doesn't' do what I thought it would do.
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Blender is an application. OpenColorIO is a library.
OCIO is already used in Blender to some extent. In the future, it will be integrated more fully.
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I see it coming now...
1) Open source OpenColorIO
2) Wait for Poettering to pick it up and integrate into SystemD
3) ?????
4) Profit!
The Great Colour Leveller (Score:4, Interesting)
It's been integrated in many software products for some time now. The essential gist of it is that light capture, manipulation and display is littered with all sorts of incredibly complicated, and sometimes proprietary encodings that can make combining them a colossal mess. OCIO was an attempt to sit down and formalize the stew into a process that would convert all those colour spaces and light capture methods into a workable primary for manipulation(linear).
I'll be honest, I've been using it for so many years I assumed it was already OS, I guess I was wrong, and now Sony wants to pass control to the community. Cool.
Sony, ILM and others have done things like this for some time, and despite the jokes about embedded hacker code or unreliability, in fact not only is it not true(these are tried and true production tools that tend to be fairly atomic and rigorously tested), but the reasoning behind it are quite pragmatic. The notion of a single FX facility doing an entire movie/show has basically disappeared now - the economic reality is many studios of wildly different sizes will work on a single show, frequently in a panic at the last minute to boot when the workload increases but the delivery won't budge. In the past, every studio had it's own swiss army knife approach to all the countless technical issues in the pipe, so every little thing such as file format(like ILM's venerable EXR - still the major player) or light manipulation that studios can use and not worry about incompatibility is a win/win for everyone. It might seem like a gift, but it's more a hope for striking another obstacle to sharing off the list.
When I saw the article title, I thought it was referencing OpenCue, which Sony and Google have jointly just released to OS. It's a render farm manager, which is limited to the software tools at Sony, but again by OS'ing it, in theory other plugins could be added and released and make it a more general use tool.