May 26, 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, NVIDIA
• 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

Minutes

• Action item follow-up (0:05-)
• Sub-working group updates
  • USD Camera (Michael M.)
    • having some great conversations about camera/lens metadata and workflows.
    • building a (simple) VFX Workflows diagram for discussion for how metadata flows in the existing pipelines.
    • hopefully will have something for the sub-working group soonish.
  • USD Web Visualization (Roman Z./Phil S.)
    • continued work on server-side bindings for USD stage manipulation.
    • Unity binding SWIG interface files for USD are publicly available as a starting point.
• USD adoption round-table (deferred to a future session due to outages)
• Call for additional topics
  • Jupyter Notebook/Headless DCC integration (JT)
    
    • actively working on getting this working
    • will bring a demo as soon as it is ready
  • google/usd_from_gltf
    • Having some issues with this toolset from Google (https://github.com/google/usd_from_gltf)
    • Might have better luck with Apple ARKit tools, available here: https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/tools/
      • Scroll down to the bottom of the page, see "USDZ Tools"
      • Download requires an Apple developer account.
• Closing/Action Items
  • Next session (June 9th) is cancelled
  • USD adoption round-table is rescheduled to June 23rd
    • Please prepare a slide with your studio/vendor experience with adopting USD (see linked agenda for details).