May 12, 2021

Owned by Cory Omand
Last updated: May 12, 2021
2 min read

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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
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
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
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
Philippe Sawicki, NVIDIA
Pier Paolo Ciarravano, MPC
Richard Lei, Weta
Rob Stauffer, SideFX
Robin Rowe, CinePaint
Roman Zulak, SPI
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

Minutes

  • Action item follow-up (0:05-)

    • Presentation scheduling

      • Omniverse Native Interface, NVidia – follow up in September

      • DCC/Jupyter integration for USD, JT – tentatively scheduled for June 23rd.

  • Sub-working group updates

    • USD Camera (Michael M.)

      • Added more information in the wiki – see the USD Camera page for details.

    • USD Web Visualization (Phil S.)

      • See USD Web Visualization for minutes and resource links – please join monthly meetings if you're interested!

      • Investigating integration with Hydra delegates

      • Better collaboration on WebASM build

      • What features to expose to clients, can't expose the entire API surface area via JS.

      • Determining client expectations for a minimum set of stage manipulation APIs.

  • Call for additional topics

    • Is this forum meeting the needs of the participants (Cory O.)

      • The group agrees that the frequency of the meeeting is good.

      • Brainstormed for future topics – captured in the Future Topics page.

      • Will pull from this list when there are no presentations scheduled for an upcoming session.

  • Closing/Action Items

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