Now supported by nearly every major DCC software application, USD – officially renamed OpenUSD earlier this year – is also now being adopted outside the entertainment industry.Ī key factor in this expansion has been Omniverse, AOUSD founder member Nvidia’s USD-based online 3D design and collaboration platform. The aims for the alliance include laying the groundwork for OpenUSD to become an international standard, and to expand it from an entertainment-industry technology to “embrace the needs of new industries”.ĭeveloped in-house at Pixar, and open-sourced in 2016, the Universal Scene Description has become a key part of current visual effects, feature animation and game development pipelines.

The project will be housed online by Linux Foundation affiliate the Joint Development Foundation. Pixar and partners launch Alliance for OpenUSDįive key players in the technology industry have launched the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), a new organisation to guide future development of Pixar’s open-source Universal Scene Description technology.Īs well as Pixar itself, the founder members of the AOUSD are Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and Nvidia, with Epic Games, Foundry, SideFX and Unity all due to join as general members. I wonder if C4D generates all these occlusion optimizations automatically.

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