HKOSCon2021

Presentation for the HKOSCon 2021
Remote Session / Room 2 ☞ 17:30 -18:00 on 17/July/2021

'Open Source Culture' in the CGI & VFX Industry :-
1. Overview of the Open Source initiative in Hollywood;
2. Hong Kong's Digital Ink-Painting Software developers

Contents:-
This presentation provides an overview of The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) and their impact innovating the digital visual effects and animation industry internationally. Software developers from many famous studios includes the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Pixar, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Weta Digital, Netflix, Unreal Engine etc. have joined ASWF and participated providing such novel Open Source (OS) production workflow.

The second part covers three Hong Kong software developers who indeed contributed to the Hong Kong's original digital ink-painting and animation creations. Audience will be introduced to some of these locally created CGI Ink-wash animation shots.

Ann Leung, or Ann/y Leung her byname, aka CG 思之 in Chinese
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Part 1 : The Open Source culture in Hollywood initiated by the Academy of Software Foundation (ASWF) & the Motion Picture Industry

Click this image to read《荷里活在積極推動和支援著 Open Source Software 的發展》if interested

1.1). Open Source initiative committed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar) and The Linux Foundation is collaborating with major CGI studios and offer a neutral platform for all stakeholders.

The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) was announced during the SIGGRAPH 2018 about their establishment providing a long-term open source support to the motion picture industry. They provide a core infrastructure for all CGI professionals to adapt OSS for industrial productions. Following listed their key projects:

OpenColorIO - a colour management solution for CGI production
OpenEXR - a HDR file format originally developed by ILM
OpenVDB - a high-resolution volumetric fast data access function originally developed by DreamWorks
OpenCue - a render management system
OpenTimelineIO - an interchange format and API for editing media
Open Shading Language - a PBR shading language originally developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks
(the latest project joined ASWF) MaterialX - an open standard to transfer rich material and look-development contents originally developed by ILM

(click the underneath image to access ASWF website for details)

Part 2 : Ink-painting Software development in Hong Kong

Click this image to read《香港 CG 水墨動畫介紹》

2.1) Hong Kong's Chinese Ink-wash Animation applied locally invented software tools in their production

Farm Boy Azhi《白石阿芝》(2002)
Mei, The Stream from Heaven《天上人間 ─ 梅蘭芳》(2005)
Two VFX shots in the movie Chinese Tall Story《情癲大聖》(2005)
Wu Song Diary: Tiger Fight《武松日記之打虎》(2011)
Find Find《爪抓》(in progress)

☞Part of the animated "South Heaven Gate"「南天門」sequence in the movie Chinese Tall Story《情癲大聖》(2005)
(Image copyright: Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB))

2.2) Three local software developers