Walt Disney Animation Studios Open Source Software

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Sony Pictures Imageworks also does this: http://opensource.imageworks.com/

Beyond benefiting from open source and wanting to give back, these studios use lots of software with different features and file formats to work on the same assets. It's really helpful when they can use the same techniques or files across multiple packages. They open source this tech in the hope that it will be adopted more broadly among the software packages they use. Hence Alembic, OpenEXR, etc.

I had no idea Disney did things like this. This is great!

I'm already curious about Reposado (Software Update Server) and Munki (manage OSX software installs). I may have a use for these. Nice to see tools in there for topics other than animation.

I wish they'd open source their Amiga animation tool, so somebody can port it to X11.

That shit was tight back in the day.

wow :O

anyone knows if they recently had an internal change or something? just wow! Disney who prevented 15 year olds from putting their favorite movies songs on YouTube?

we really live in interesting times.

Nope - Walt Disney Animation has been doing open source for some time. They've been heavily involved in Python/PyCon for some time as well. They're really great people.

Disney is a huge megacorp. Bits of it are run by cool open source loving hackers, other bits are run by evil money-grubbing lawyers. I imagine that the different bits have very little to do with each other.

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