February 3, 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
• Brian Green, Dreamworks
• 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
• Greg Wuller, AWS
• 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
• Philippe Sawicki, Autodesk
• 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
• Serguei Kalentchouk, Apple
• Shawn Dunn, Epic Games
• Sue Sauer, Sunrise Productions
• Sergio Rojas, Arena World

Minutes

• Action item follow-up (0:05-)
  
  • Presentation scheduling (Cory O.)
• Sub-working group updates
  • USD Camera (Michael M.)
    • Enthusiastic first session
    • A number of initiatives underway:
      • Identify existing camera schemas
      • Discover existing research into physical camera models
      • Early specifications for lens metadata
• Jupyter Notebook Updates
  • USD notebooks running in Google Colab space (see Interactive Google Colab notebooks)
  • Working on a solution for 3D visualization within notebooks.
• Web-based USD Visualization
  • There are a number of efforts in this space, would a sub-working group be useful.
  • Roman Zulakto lead a USD/Web sub-working group
  • Initial goal of the group will be to discuss a proposal for a SIGGRAPH panel on USD/Web visualization.
  • Deadline for panel proposal is Feb 23rd.
  • Reporting back to USDWG in next session (Feb 17th) on progress/needs.
• Call for additional topics
  • No additional topics.
• Closing/Action Items