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The library for reading and writing images is accepted as a hosted project.
Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), an organization created for advancing open-source software development across image creation, visual effects, animation, and sound technologies, adopted OpenImageIO as its hosted project.
OpenImageIO is a library for reading and writing images used primarily by VFX studios and developers of renderers, compositors, viewers, and other image-related software. It was created by Larry Gritz, Software Architect at Sony Pictures Imageworks, and is regarded as one of the VFX industry’s earliest open-source projects.
“The Academy Software Foundation is proud to be hosting OpenImageIO as a project. We want to take this opportunity to thank Larry Gritz for his contribution, not only for donating OpenImageIO to the Foundation, but also for his relentless work as a mentor to our developer community, and active promoter of the open source ethos,” shared David Morin, Executive Director of the Academy Software Foundation. “OpenImageIO has been one of the hallmark open source projects of the motion picture industry, and becoming part of the Foundation will invigorate it with new contributors and ideas moving forward.”
This is presumably another step in ASWF's Open Review Initiative progress. Announced last year, it aims to build "a unified open source toolset for playback, review and approval of motion picture and related professional media." Maxon, Tangent Animation, Framestore, and HP joined ASWF, and Autodesk, DNEG, and Sony Pictures Imageworks were the first contributors to the Open Review Initiative.
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