LIst of requests for types of film (or film-like) assets. This is primarily for requests by ASWF projects, but the ASWF TAC will sometimes post requests from related open-source projects, university researchers, or commercial software/hardware projects. To add a request, please propose it on the mailing list.
Description need not mention "feature film complexity" or "production strength", since this is assumed.
| Title | Category | Requestor(s) | Preferred File Format | Description, Purpose, Requirements | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example wish list item | 3D | Asset Repo WG | USD | Short animation of fur-covered character. For studies of hair shading, anti-aliasing, and motion blur. Need basic hair shading parameters. Don't need animation rig (baked vertices are fine). | 2021-05-25 |
| Feature/Short Film Timeline | Video/Audio + Timeline | OpenTimelineIO | OTIO (or AAF, FCPXML, etc.) | A full feature or short film timeline, with associated media clips. For understanding of production use cases, we are looking for a working NLE project with many video and audio tracks, clips with trims/handles, transitions, effects, etc. not just a single track with back-to-back clips. Video and audio media could be any format, and need not be high resolution. | 2021-05-27 |
| Production Shaders | Shaders | OSL | OSL (or OSO) | A few representative, production-complexity OSL shader networks describing the surface properties of an asset. Ideally the shaders could be re-applied to simpler geometry (such as a sphere) such that it can be run in a simplified environment like testshade or testrender. The goal is to provide the OSL developers some benchmarking targets for tracking performance evolution and comparing different hardware backends. | 2021-06-30 |
| Movie compression tests | Video | Review Approval | EXR or raw | Image sequences that will tax typical movie compressions algorithms, e.g. rain, or particular effects, or fast moving imagery. | 2021-07-28 |