Open Cinema Tools

January 16, 2010 //

Open Cinema Tools provides a set of tools (currently command line only) to create Digital Cinema Packages (DCP’s) for playback on digital cinema projectors.  The goals for Open Cinema Tools are:

  • creation of DCP from source files
  • support for multi-reel DCPs with several audio and subtitle tracks
  • development of an intuitive, multi-lingual user interface

Project Page: http://code.google.com/p/opencinematools/
Language: C++
Platform: Windows, Linux
License: New BSD License

Ptex

January 15, 2010 //

Ptex is a texture mapping system developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios for production-quality rendering:

  • No UV assignment is required! Ptex applies a separate texture to each face of a subdivision or polygon mesh.
  • The Ptex file format can efficiently store hundreds of thousands of texture images in a single file.
  • The Ptex API provides cached file I/O and high-quality filtering – everything that is needed to easily add Ptex support to a production-quality renderer or texture authoring application.

Home Page: http://ptex.us/
Project Page: http://github.com/wdas/ptex/
Language: C++
Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows
License: New BSD
Sponsor: Walt Disney Animation Studios

OpenPipeline

January 15, 2010 //

openPipeline is an open source framework for managing animation production data and workflow. Its first implementation is a MEL-based plug-in for Autodesk Maya that handles specific aspects of production: automatic directory structures, file naming conventions, revision control, and modularity that makes multi-artist workflows possible.

Home Page: http://kickstand.tv/openpipeline/openpipeline-information/
Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpipeline
Language: MEL
Platform: Linux, Windows, OS X
License: Common Public License 1.0

Earth

January 14, 2010 //

Earth allows you to find files across a large network of machines and track disk usage in real time. It consists of a daemon that indexes filesystems in real time and reports all the changes back to a central database. This can then be queried through a simple, yet powerful, web interface. Think of it like Spotlight or Beagle but operating system independent with a central database for multiple machines with a web application that allows novel ways of exploring your data.

Earth is initially focused on managing the explosion of data that occurs in digital visual effects work.

Project Page: http://open.rsp.com.au/projects/earth
Language: Ruby
Platform: Linux, Windows, OS X, etc
License: The GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2
Sponsor: Rising Sun Pictures

DrQueue

January 10, 2010 //

DrQueue started as an application to provide distributed render queueing and management services for rendering animations.

The generic service DrQueue provides allows the distribution, monitoring and management of tasks across a network of computing nodes. A queue of jobs composing of a number of tasks are spread over the computing nodes and processed in parallel. Read the rest of this entry »

Home Page: http://www.drqueue.org
Project Page: https://ssl.drqueue.org/project
Language: c++
Platform: Linux, Mac OSX, Irix, FreeBSD and Windows
License: GNU GPL Version 3

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