August 18, 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
• Carlos Felipe Garcia Murillo
• 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
• Henrik Edstrom, 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
• Lucas Morante
• 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, NVIDIA
• Pete Segal
• Phil Sawicki, NVIDIA
• Pier Paolo Ciarravano, MPC
• Richard Lei, Weta
• Rob Stauffer, SideFX
• Robin Rowe, CinePaint
• Roman Zulak, NVIDIA
• 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
• Steve Hwan

Minutes

• Sub-working group updates
  • USD Camera (Michael M.)
  • USD Web Visualization (Roman Z.)
    • Progress on Jupyter Notebooks exposing 3D content
      • NVIDIA made a free online course about USD Fundamentals available during SIGGRAPH
      • https://courses.nvidia.com/courses/course-v1:DLI+S-FX-02+V1/about
• USDWG Leadership (comand)
  • Next session scheduled for September 1st 2021 will be aimed at hearing thoughts and suggestions regarding USD Chair, and transition
  • Cory to send invite and note to the USD interest mailing-list to notify attendees who couldn't join today's session
• SIGGRAPH impressions
  • Code-less schemas are interesting, and may provide relief for some class of ABI compatibility problems. 
  • USD potentially included in the VFX platform, as draft is currently being sketched for the 2023 draft: https://vfxplatform.com 
    • To be confirmed within the upcoming weeks
  • Blender support for USD in the 3.0 Alpha release appears to have gathered positive reactions
• Call for additional topics
• Closing/Action Items