{"id":5229,"date":"2020-03-10T02:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T01:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:13:59","slug":"fostering-intellectual-openness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/10\/fostering-intellectual-openness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering intellectual openness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Back in 2008, I was privileged to attend Ed Catmull’s keynote<\/a> at Siggraph as a Microsoft\/Rare representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his talk, Ed Catmull looked back at the mistakes Pixar did in its early years and the secrecy surrounding their technologies was one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead he explained, everyone would benefit if studios became more open about their projects and technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2020, Ed Catmull stayed true to his words and everyone is now fully acquainted with Disney’s Ptex<\/a> and other Pixar’s USD<\/a> but did you know that Blue Sky and Dreamworks have also embraced the idea of sharing their ideas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few days ago, I shared an old article from the Blue Sky’s tech blog<\/a> on Linkedin and I was astonished by the success it received. In the space of few days, my post, received a little bit less than 3.5k views on a blog post I had assumed everyone had already read and no, the article became viral.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most animation related websites are too mainstream those days and not technology focused enough so it is easy to fall out of the loop. When using a 3d software, yes you can pretend you are working like a 2d animator but realistically, you are more like the pilot of a fighter plane and need to keep an eye on your memory use, processes and autosaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone wanting to stay up to date for at least what the main Feature animation studios are doing, I would highly recommend to bookmark the following links and keep an eye on what is being discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blue Sky tech blog <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blue Sky tech blog is a fairly new one and I read some really interesting articles there, one of them regarding the gamification of Quality Checks (Introducing achievements into QC<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disney papers and talks<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the historical animated feature tech website that goes all the way back to 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year’s “Optimizing rig manipulation with GPU and parallel evaluation” <\/a>Siggraph paper doesn’t appear though. It will eventually I am sure so use the link just above to read an abstract and watch the accompanying video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dreamworks research and development:<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Dreamworks treasure cove. Loads of information about their proprietary software and other tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pixar research<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where it all started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hope this is useful to you. Don’t hesitate to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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