Asset Repository WG - 22 Dec 2020
Attendees
[x] Michael Johnson (Apple) + WG Chair
[x] Eric Enderton (NVIDIA, DigiPro)
[x] Roman Zulak (Imageworks)
[x] Dhruv Govil (Apple)
[x] JT Nelson (Pasadena Open Source consortium / SoCal Blender group)
Wave’s Discussion w/OpenEXR group
- Have two types of assets:
- fuzz images / bug images: regression tests, robustness tests. Mostly useful to OpenEXR project.
- production scale images: old, not at suitable level. Mostly synthetic.
- Mainly interested in complicated push-the-edge images. Not as interested in best practices / simple examples. 150 AOVs. Deep images - fragmented leaves etc.
- Concern about Docker image becoming unwieldy large.
- Cary: Maybe a requirement for ASWF project could be having an example repo? Cary, Nick, Larry felt the hurdle was worth it.
- Cary: Samples are separate github repo.
- Who’s going to do the work
- Packaging of Moana could include a bunch of OpenEXRs ?
- Google Summer of Code? No those have to be code, not TD work etc.
- Joseph Goldstone: Academy Sci Tech interns?
- ASWF “Summer of Production” interns?
- D+I interns
- Need an active production person to guide the intern to create images that match the pipeline complexity and shape of production EXRs.
- Where to host assets that don’t match a project
- Are they not ASWF’s business?
- Let’s ask Nick Cannon, did you host because there was nowhere else, or because Disney wanted to host themselves?
- ASWF could still host portable or modified versions. Or provide an alternative host.
- Assets hosted with a project
- Followup: Bring up at TAC.
- Assets with a project have a certain credibility, and guarantee.
- Badge them which are old / new ? EXR 3.0 …
- Roman: By the time a project is ready for ASWF, it will have production test data.
- But often proprietary. Pixar has a large USD test set, that they can’t publish. OSL assets: Sony has tons but OSL (OSS) doesn’t.
Wave’s meeting with w/Matt Luhn, director of upcoming Blender short
- https://cloud.blender.org/films/sprite-fright
- Ex Pixar. Production designer worked on Up, Finding Dory, etc
- Wave will follow up with producer of the film, Francesco Siddi
- could we get EXRs
- could we get cuts (OpenTimeline)
- OpenVDB?
- JT: Assets shared across divisions more often now - production, marketing, merchandise.