April 28, 2021

Video Conference Link

Attendance

• Cory Omand - WG Chair, Pixar/TWDS
• Alan Blevins, Dreamworks
• Alex Gerveshi, AWS
• Alex Schwank, Apple
• Aloys Baillet, Animal Logic
• Andy Biar,  Warner Bros.
• Anandhaiyappan, Botvfx
• Arash Keissami, Nira.app
• Ben Chung-Hoon, Google
• Bill Spitzak, Dreamworks Animation
• Carson Brownlee, Intel
• Charles Fleche, Rodeo FX
• Chris Rydalch, Blue Sky Studios
• Daniel Heckenberg, Animal Logic
• David Aguilar, Walt Disney Animation
• Deke Kincaid, Digital Domain
• Dhruv Govil, Apple
• Doug MacMillan, Tippett Studio
• Eoin Murphy, NVidia
• Eric Enderton, NVidia
• Fabrice Macagno, Animal Logic
• Francois Lord, Rodeo FX
• Gary Jones, Foundry
• Gordon Bradley, Autodesk
• Henry Vera, DNEG
• James Pedlingham, Foundry
• Jeff Bradley, Dreamworks
• John Hood, SPI
• John Mertic, Linux Foundation
• Jordan Soles, Rodeo FX
• Jordan Thistlewood, Foundry
• JT Nelson, Pasadena Open Source Consortium/SoCal Blender group
• Kimball Thurston, Weta
• Larry Gritz, SPI
• Lee Kerley, SPI
• Luca Scheller, RiseFX
• Mark Elendt, SideFX
• Mark Final, Foundry
• Mark Tucker, SideFX
• Mathieu Mazerolle, Foundry
• Matthew Levine, WDAS
• Matthew Low, DWA
• Michael B. Johnson, Apple
• Michael Kass, NVidia
• Michael Min, Netflix
• Niall Redmond, Foundry
• Nick Porcino, Pixar
• Paul Molodowitch, Luma Pictures
• Philippe Sawicki, NVIDIA
• Pier Paolo Ciarravano, MPC
• Richard Lei, Weta
• Rob Stauffer, SideFX
• Robin Rowe, CinePaint
• Roman Zulak, SPI
• Rory Woodford, Foundry
• Sean Looper, AWS
• Sean McDuffee, Intel
• Seb Schmidt, Weta
• Sergio Rojas, Arena World
• Serguei Kalentchouk, Apple
• Shawn Dunn, Epic Games
• Sue Sauer, Sunrise Productions

Minutes

• Action item follow-up (0:05-)
  • Presentation scheduling
    • DCC/Jupyter Notebook Integration (JT) 
    • Omniverse Native Interface (NVidia)
• Sub-working group updates
  • USD Camera (Michael M.)
    • No updates this week, no meeting since last session.
  • USD Web Visualization (Roman Z.)
    • Working to get more complicated assets working, e.g. UsdSkel.
    • No meeting since last session.
• Call for additional topics
  • Continued work on Jupyter notebook/USD/DCC integration.
  • How is Omniverse making use of Hydra for rendering
    • RTX renderer uses USD for interchange, uses a modified Hydra implementation.
    • Standard Hydra still has OpenGL dependencies
    • In future, modifications would likely be open sourced for possibly inclusion upstream.
  • GLTF/KTX support in USD
    • Would need a file format plugin in order to support
    • NVidia would like to collaborate if others are interested in developing KTX support.
    • https://www.khronos.org/ktx/
• Closing/Action Items
  • Cory O. to follow up with Michael K. about ONI presentation, possibly for 5/12.
  • Cory O. to follow up with JT about Jupyter/USD/DCC integration demo, possibly for 5/26.