For its contribution to shaping today’s filmmaking industry, Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) has been honoured by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a prestigious Academy Scientific and Engineering Award. OpenUSD’s developers are F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles. The Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievements […]
The designers and engineers behind the Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles, have together won one of 2024’s Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. Some of 2024’s other Scientific and Technical Academy Award winners James Eggleton and Delwyn Holroyd “for the design, implementation and integration of the High-Density […]
For those not familiar with Universal Scene Description (USD), it’s “a framework for interchange of 3D computer graphics data. The framework focuses on collaboration, non-destructive editing, and enabling multiple views and opinions about graphics data. USD is used in many industries including visual effects, architecture, design, robotics and CAD” (Wikipedia). USD is a high-performance extensible […]
The concept of the metaverse was first introduced by science fiction author Neal Stephenson in the 1990s. It is ushering in a new era of design and simulation in a wide range of industries. Complex environments for feature film production on LED stages and digital twins are examples of how these large, high fidelity scenes are being […]
Universal Scene Description (USD) was invented by Pixar to help them assemble and interchange movie scenes. Since Pixar open-sourced USD in 2016, it has grown to become the interchange format that brings consistency and interoperability to 3D artists when building three-dimensional and immersive locations, scenes or environments, including multiverses and digital twins. A USD layer […]