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
- Carlos Felipe Garcia Murillo
- 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
- Henrik Edstrom, 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
- Lucas Morante
- 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
- Pete Segal
- Phil Sawicki, NVIDIA
- Pier Paolo Ciarravano, MPC
- Richard Lei, Weta
- Rob Stauffer, SideFX
- Robin Rowe, CinePaint
- Roman Zulak, NVidia 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
- Steve Hwan
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Minutes
- Sub-working group updates
- USD Camera (Michael M.)
- USD Web Visualization (Roman Z.)
- Progress on Jupyter Notebooks exposing 3D content
- NVIDIA made a free online course about USD Fundamentals available during SIGGRAPH:
- https://courses.nvidia.com/courses/course-v1:DLI+S-FX-02+V1/about
- Progress on Jupyter Notebooks exposing 3D content
- USDWG Leadership (comand)
- Next session scheduled for September 1st 2021 will be aimed at hearing thoughts and suggestions regarding USD Chair, and transition
- Cory to send invite and note to the USD interest mailing-list to notify attendees who couldn't join today's session
- SIGGRAPH impressions
- Code-less schemas are interesting, and may provide relief for some class of ABI compatibility problems.
- USD potentially included in the VFX platform, as draft is currently being sketched for the 2022 2023 draft: https://vfxplatform.com
- To be confirmed within the upcoming weeks
- Blender support for USD in the 3.0 Alpha release appears to have gathered positive reactions
- Call for additional topics
- Closing/Action Items