Lead Rendering Engineer, Materials and Shading at the Lucasfilm Advanced Development Group. https://xitter.cf/t.co/wnjZIeOCaO
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Joined April 2010
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For members of the computer graphics community who are interested in X alternatives, I wanted to highlight the excellent graphics.social instance that my colleague @jaxzin has created on Mastodon, and you can find me there at graphics.social/@SheriffSton…
Thanks to our colleagues at @Adobe, @autodesk, @ChaosGroup, @nvidia, @Pixar, and @sidefx for their amazing work on the MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Town Hall for @AcademySwf Open Source Days 2024.
The full slide deck can be found at materialx.org/assets/ASWF_OS…
ALT MaterialX robot in Chaos V-Ray
ALT OpenPBR Shader Playground in NVIDIA Omniverse
Join us on July 23rd for the MaterialX Virtual Townhall at ASWF Open Source Days 2024, featuring presentations from Adobe, Autodesk, Chaos, NVIDIA, Pixar, and SideFX.
events.linuxfoundation.org/o…
ALT MaterialX robot in Chaos V-Ray
ALT OpenPBR Shader Playground in NVIDIA Omniverse
Jonathan Stone retweeted
MaterialX v1.39.0 has been released! This version updates the MaterialX specification and codebase to 1.39, bringing significant improvements to its pattern and physically based shading nodes, including support for OpenPBR Surface (seen here in Omniverse). github.com/AcademySoftwareFo…
ALT OpenPBR Shader Playground rendered by NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs
Jonathan Stone retweeted
MaterialX 1.38.9 is released! This version adds support for environment prefiltering on the GPU, integrates improvements to the Graph Editor and Web Viewer from ASWF Dev Days, and introduces the first non-photorealistic rendering node library to MaterialX. github.com/AcademySoftwareFo…
ALT The MaterialX Chess Set in a natural lighting environment, rendered using Prefiltered Environment Maps
ALT The MaterialX Chess Set in a natural lighting environment, rendered using Filtered Importance Sampling
Jonathan Stone retweeted
MaterialX v1.38.8 has been released! This version adds a rich set of new pattern nodes to the standard, and is the first MaterialX release with support for iOS builds, drag-and-drop loading in the Web Viewer, and MaterialX Python distribution through PyPI. github.com/AcademySoftwareFo…
Thanks to our colleagues at @Adobe, @AutodeskOSS, @openusd, @IKEA, @nvidiaomniverse, @pixarsrenderman, and @PrismPipeline for their amazing work on the MaterialX Virtual Town Hall for
@AcademySwf Open Source Days 2023. The full slide deck can be found at materialx.org/assets/ASWF_OS…
For folks who weren't able to attend, video recordings of the MaterialX Virtual Town Hall and other sessions at ASWF Open Source Days 2023 are now online:
youtube.com/watch?v=PdxArDHR…
Jonathan Stone retweeted
We're excited to announce the open source release of a brand new @MaterialXcg editor: QuiltiX
Create your materials in this artist friendly standalone editor.
Download QuiltiX here for free:
prism-pipeline.com/quiltix
Developed by @ShadesOfOrange_ and Richard Frangenberg
Jonathan Stone retweeted
Today we're announcing OpenPBR, a new subproject of @MaterialXcg! Developed by @autodesk and @Adobe, OpenPBR is a new shading model that provides creatives with a more artist-friendly bridge from one software to another. Read more here: aswf.io/blog/academy-softwar…
Looking forward to the MaterialX Virtual Townhall on August 2nd, featuring a brand new open shading model from Adobe and Autodesk, MaterialX technology updates from Pixar and NVIDIA, and new MaterialX graph editors from Remedy Entertainment and IKEA. events.linuxfoundation.org/o…
Highlighting one of the talks at tomorrow's Townhall, QuiltiX is a MaterialX graph editor developed by Prism Pipeline, built upon an open technology stack including MaterialX, USD/Hydra, and NodeGraphQt.
Jonathan Stone retweeted
Join us on August 2nd for the #MaterialX Virtual Townhall at @AcademySwf Open Source Days 2023, featuring presentations from Adobe, Autodesk, OpenUSD, IKEA, NVIDIA, RenderMan, and Remedy Entertainment. events.linuxfoundation.org/o…
Very impressed by the Apple Vision Pro announcement this morning, and there will be a technical deep dive into MaterialX and physically based shading in Reality Composer Pro on June 7th. developer.apple.com/videos/p…
Jonathan Stone retweeted
I'm so excited for y'all to see #TheCreator. We've been secretly working w/ Gareth Edwards on this along w/ Prod Designer James Clyne & photography from @GreigFraser_dp & @orensoffer. I'm extremely proud of this as it's my 1st time being VFX Supervisor w/ the @ILMVFX dream team!
"This is a fight for our very existence."
Gareth Edwards’ new picture #TheCreator arrives in cinemas September 29th. We are incredibly proud of this film here at ILM and we cannot wait for the world to see it.
I'm really fascinated by this recent Neural Appearance Models paper, which has the potential to level the playing field for production-complexity materials in real-time rendering.
We finally get to share our neural materials research.
We created custom highly-realistic reference materials, we invented new neural models, and we built new graphics systems.
End result is these neural materials run in a real-time path tracer.
research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr…
Their use of #MaterialX for the source data hints at a generalized expression of neural materials that could perhaps be incorporated back into the MaterialX project one day.
Jonathan Stone retweeted
Introducing our film for this year: WISH, which tells a new story celebrating 100 years of Disney Animation!
Lot of folks are calling this 3D/2D hybrid- nope, it's actually 100% 3D, all rendered using Disney's Hyperion Renderer with our new watercolor stylization process! (1/4)
Jonathan Stone retweeted
MaterialX v1.38.7 has been released, including the new MaterialX Graph Editor from @Lucasfilm, Metal Shading Language support from @Apple, MDL 1.7 support from @nvidia, and more. See the release notes for full details: github.com/AcademySoftwareFo…
ALT MaterialX Graph Editor