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Presentation for the HKOSCon 2021
Remote Session / Room 2 ☞ 17:30 -18:00 on 17/July/2021​
'Open Source Culture' in the CGI & VFX Industry :-
​1. Overview of the Open Source initiative in Hollywood;
2. Hong Kong's Digital Ink-Painting Software developers 
Contents:-
​This presentation provides an overview of The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) and their impact innovating the digital visual effects and animation industry internationally. Software developers from many famous studios includes the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Pixar, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Weta Digital, Netflix, Unreal Engine etc. have joined ASWF and participated providing such novel Open Source (OS) production workflow.

​The second part covers three Hong Kong software developers who indeed contributed to the Hong Kong's original digital ink-painting and animation creations. Audience will be introduced to some of these locally created CGI Ink-wash animation shots.

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Ann Leung, or Ann/y Leung her byname, aka CG 思之 in Chinese
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Part 1 : The Open Source culture in Hollywood initiated by the Academy of Software Foundation (ASWF) & the Motion Picture Industry
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Click this image to read《荷里活在積極推動和支援著 Open Source Software 的發展》if interested
1.1). Open Source initiative committed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar) and The Linux Foundation is collaborating with major CGI studios and offer a neutral platform for all stakeholders.
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) was announced during the SIGGRAPH 2018 about their establishment providing a long-term open source support to the motion picture industry. They provide a core infrastructure for all CGI professionals to adapt OSS for industrial productions. Following listed their key projects:
  • OpenColorIO - a colour management solution for CGI production
  • OpenEXR - a HDR file format originally developed by ILM
  • OpenVDB - a high-resolution volumetric fast data access function originally developed by DreamWorks
  • OpenCue - a render management system
  • OpenTimelineIO - an interchange format and API for editing media
  • Open Shading Language - a PBR shading language originally developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks
  • (the latest project joined ASWF) MaterialX - an open standard to transfer rich material and look-development contents originally developed by ILM
(click the underneath image to access ASWF website for details)
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Part 2 : Ink-painting Software development in Hong Kong
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Click this image to read《香港 CG 水墨動畫介紹》
2.1) Hong Kong's Chinese Ink-wash Animation applied locally invented software tools in their production
  • Farm Boy Azhi《白石阿芝》(2002)
  • Mei, The Stream from Heaven《天上人間  ─ 梅蘭芳》(2005)
  • Two VFX shots in the movie Chinese Tall Story《情癲大聖》(2005)
  • Wu Song Diary: Tiger Fight《武松日記之打虎》(2011)
  • Find Find《爪抓》(in progress)​
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☞Part of the animated "South Heaven Gate"「南天門 」sequence in the movie Chinese Tall Story《情癲大聖》(2005)
​ (Image copyright: ​Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB))


2.2) Three local software developers
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Image courtesy of Nelson Chu's FB
Alex Hsu
  • Creature House 'Expression' ☞
  • 'LivingCels'
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Image from wikipedia
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Nelson Chu
  • ​released Moxi「墨戲」in 2005
  • released Expresii「寫意」in 2012 (refer to ☟ section 2.3)
Image & videos copyright: Nelson Chu
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Link to the YouTube channel
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Chung-yu Wong
  • released his ink painting software Pure ink「離心一墨」in 2020 (refer to ☟ section 2.4)​
Images copyright: Chung-Yu Wong
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2.3) Expresii
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Click this image to read《香港電腦水墨動畫的點滴》

'Expresii' is the latest software program by Nelson Chu (click the underneath image to access Expresii website for details)
  • ​​Moxi - an inking simulation engine
  • Yibi - a virtual brush engine
  • Youji - a high-resolution render engine
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Click this image to access "Expresii" website for details

​Find Find《爪抓》is an indie animation film directed by Angela Wong, applied 'Expresii' in the production
  • Produced by Studio Biped​
  • Developed a "procedural inking" feature for the octopus' motion (click following image to see their FB video)
Videos copyright: Angela Wong & Studio Biped
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​2.4) Pure Ink
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Click the above image to read《香港電腦水墨界又一傑作 ─「離心一墨」》
☜ Click the image on left to access 'Pure Ink' website for details

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Useful links:

Posts in【CG思之專欄】related to Hong Kong's CGI Ink-wash Animation:
  • ​荷里活在積極推動和支援著 Open Source Software 的發展​
  • 香港電腦水墨動畫的點滴
  • ​香港電腦水墨界又一傑作 ─「離心一墨」(免費軟件)​​
  • 香港 CG 水墨動畫介紹 
  • A Brief Account on the Contemporary Digital Ink-Wash Animation in Hong Kong – An Aesthetics Endeavor​

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