- Lucasfilm and Sony Pictures Imageworks unveiled Alembic, a computer graphics interchange format, this week at the SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver. Version 1.0 is now available for download.
- According to Carolyn Giardina of The Hollywood Reporter, Alembic is “an open source system aimed at helping VFX companies easily store and share complex animated scenes across facilities, regardless of what software is being used.”
- Sony Pictures Imageworks reports Alembic enables its artists to work 48 percent faster while using significantly less disc space.
- At SIGGRAPH, leading software suppliers including Autodesk, Luxology, The Foundry and Side Effects are showing Alembic support for their top products.
Topics: Alembic, Carolyn Giardina, CG, Imageworks, Lucasfilm, SIGGRAPH, Sony, Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Imageworks, VFX
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