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These projects form the backbone of modern film and media production pipelines worldwide. type: Index deliveryModel: model: open-core license: BSD-3-Clause open_source: true commercial: true callable_host: false label: Open core ยท an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product confidence: high source: - license - openapi - pricing generated: '2026-08-28' method: derived accessModel: pricing: paid onboarding: unknown trial: false try_now: false public: false label: Paid confidence: medium source: - finops generated: '2026-07-22' method: derived position: Consuming access: 3rd-Party image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/academy-software-foundation.png tags: - Animation - Color Management - Film - Linux Foundation - Open Source - Rendering - Standards - Visual Effects - VFX tags_raw: - Animation - Color Management - Film - Linux Foundation - Open Source - Rendering - Standards - Visual Effects - VFX - Open-Source created: '2026-03-16' modified: '2026-08-29' url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/academy-software-foundation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml specificationVersion: '0.23' apis: - aid: academy-software-foundation:openexr name: OpenEXR description: >- OpenEXR is an open standard high-dynamic-range (HDR) image file format specification and reference implementation developed by Industrial Light and Magic. It is the industry standard for visual effects and animation and provides a C++ library for reading and writing EXR image files. humanURL: https://openexr.com/ tags: - Image Format - HDR - Standards - C++ properties: - type: Documentation url: https://openexr.com/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr - aid: academy-software-foundation:openvdb name: OpenVDB description: >- OpenVDB is an Academy Award-winning open source C++ library for efficient storage and manipulation of sparse volumetric data discretized on three-dimensional grids. It is the industry standard for volumetric effects in film and visual effects production. humanURL: https://www.openvdb.org/ tags: - Volumetric Data - C++ - Rendering - Standards properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.openvdb.org/documentation/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb - aid: academy-software-foundation:opencolorio name: OpenColorIO description: >- OpenColorIO (OCIO) is a complete color management solution geared towards motion picture production, enabling color transforms and image display to be handled in a consistent manner across many applications. It is used by major VFX studios and DCC tools including Maya, Nuke, and Houdini. humanURL: https://opencolorio.org/ tags: - Color Management - Standards - C++ properties: - type: Documentation url: https://opencolorio.readthedocs.io/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO - aid: academy-software-foundation:opentimelineio name: OpenTimelineIO description: >- OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) is an open source API and interchange format for editorial timeline information. It is designed to be more expressive than existing formats while still being easy to read and write, enabling better interoperability between editing tools. humanURL: https://opentimeline.io/ tags: - Editorial - Timelines - Standards - Python tags_raw: - Editorial - Timeline - Standards - Python properties: - type: Documentation url: https://opentimelineio.readthedocs.io/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO - aid: academy-software-foundation:openshadinglanguage name: Open Shading Language description: >- Open Shading Language (OSL) is a small but rich language for programmable shading in advanced renderers and other applications. It is ideal for describing materials, lights, displacement, and pattern generation and is supported by many production renderers. humanURL: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenShadingLanguage tags: - Shading - Rendering - Standards - C++ properties: - type: Documentation url: >- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenShadingLanguage/blob/main/src/doc/osl-languagespec.pdf - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenShadingLanguage - aid: academy-software-foundation:materialx name: MaterialX description: >- MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content between applications and renderers. It provides a language for defining surface and volume shading patterns that can be used across different rendering systems and DCC applications. humanURL: https://www.materialx.org/ tags: - Materials - Shading - Standards - XML properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.materialx.org/Specification.html - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX - aid: academy-software-foundation:openimagedio name: OpenImageIO description: >- OpenImageIO (OIIO) is a library for reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats. It is used in visual effects and animation production pipelines for texture baking, image compositing, and format conversion. humanURL: https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/home tags: - Image Processing - C++ - VFX properties: - type: Documentation url: https://openimageio.readthedocs.io/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO - aid: academy-software-foundation:openfx name: OpenFX description: >- OpenFX is an open standard API for visual effects plug-ins used in compositing and image processing applications. It defines how host applications and image processing plug-ins communicate, enabling interoperability across compositing tools. humanURL: https://openfx.io/ tags: - Visual Effects - Plugin API - Standards - C++ properties: - type: Documentation url: https://openfx.io/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openfx - aid: academy-software-foundation:openapv name: OpenAPV description: >- OpenAPV is an open, royalty-free video codec specification designed for professional video production and post-production workflows. It is optimized for high-quality intermediate video formats used in camera and on-set production pipelines. humanURL: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openapv tags: - Video Codec - Standards - C properties: - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openapv - aid: academy-software-foundation:openpbr name: OpenPBR description: >- OpenPBR is an open specification and reference implementation for a physically-based shading model. It defines a standard material definition language that can be used across different renderers to achieve consistent appearance. humanURL: https://academysoftwarefoundation.github.io/OpenPBR/ tags: - Rendering - Materials - Standards properties: - type: Documentation url: https://academysoftwarefoundation.github.io/OpenPBR/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenPBR - aid: academy-software-foundation:academy-software-foundation-hosts-api name: Academy Software Foundation Hosts API description: Manage render host machines in the farm humanURL: https://www.opencue.io/ baseURL: 'http://{opencue-gateway-host}:8448' tags: - Hosts properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/academy-software-foundation-hosts-api-openapi.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/academy-software-foundation-hosts-api-overlay.yaml - type: Protobuf url: grpc/academy-software-foundation-grpc.yml - type: Documentation url: https://www.opencue.io/docs/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenCue - 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