“OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN THE FILM INDUSTRY” By ANDREW VAN PERINS, DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

Summary: We'll take a look at how movie studios and visual effects houses have
transitioned from proprietary and closed source tools to building a set of industry standards,
libraries and applications. We'll discuss the Academy Software Foundation, which oversees
many of these projects. Finally, we'll look at how to learn more about these projects and get
involved with contributing to them. 

About Andrew Van Pernis:
Andrew has been at DreamWorks for more than 16 years. Prior to DreamWorks he received a
B.S. in Mathematics from Hope College and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Clemson University. He also worked at a VFX startup creating tools for stereoscopic film
production and conversion. Andrew joined Dreamworks in 2009 as a software engineer on
the Animation and Rigging Tools team. In 2017, he became a project manager and has led
four different teams. Andrew enjoys building LEGO sets and playing board games and video
games in his spare time.