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       Visual Effects Society Releases VFX Reference Platform
       By: Ludo Date: July 3, 2014, 4:42 pm
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       Los Angeles -- The Visual Effects Society, the industry’s
       professional honorary society, has announced the release of the
       industry standard VFX Reference Platform. The VFX Reference
       Platform is a set of tools and library versions to be used as a
       common target platform for building software for the VFX
       industry. Its purpose is to minimize incompatibilities between
       different software packages, ease the support burden for
       Linux-based pipelines and encourage further adoption of Linux by
       software vendors. The Reference Platform is updated annually by
       a group of software vendors in collaboration with the VES
       Technology Committee.
       The Calendar Year 2014 (CY2014) Reference Platform is the
       first-of-its-kind and represents the closest collaboration yet
       between software solutions providers to converge on a common
       platform. The CY2015 Platform developed for 2015 software
       releases has now been published in draft form and feedback is
       invited from software vendors and customer studios. The final
       version will be published in August 2014 and announced at
       SIGGRAPH.
       “By working with industry software providers, we’ve identified
       major library versions that are updated annually that can be
       shared between all major apps. This is a huge step forward for
       software distribution for VFX on Linux,” said Jeffrey A. Okun,
       VES Board Chair. “We’re proud that the VES Technology Committee,
       under the leadership of Rob Bredow and Nick Cannon, has
       successfully addressed this critical challenge and developed a
       much-needed solution.”
       The VES worked in collaboration with leading VFX companies and
       application providers to develop the platform, which provides a
       forum to coordinate major platform upgrades, easing the
       transition to new technologies, while increasing reliable
       interoperability and lowering costs for vendors and customers.
       “For the past year, the VES has been collaborating with Autodesk
       and other software vendors to create a reference Linux platform
       to address the endemic hassle of ‘version-itis.’ We’re thrilled
       the VES is taking the lead to rally both the visual effects
       community and vendors on the Linux platform to organize this
       working group and benefit all of our customers,” said Chris
       Vienneau, Autodesk Media & Entertainment Director of Product
       Management.
       “The VFX Reference Platform initiative aims to prune superfluous
       technical variety so we can all focus on stuff that matters.
       Tweak applauds all of the effort that goes into this
       indispensable project,” said Seth Rosenthal, Tweak Software.
       The Reference Platforms along with further supporting
       information, including how to contribute feedback, are available
       on
  HTML http://vfxplatform.com
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