Sony makes program that made "Into the Spiderverse" for free/open source. - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.cbr.com/into-the-spider-verse-software-goes-open-source/ Sony Pictures Imageworks has made the color management tool OpenColorIO—which was used to create the recent hit animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—available to the open source community. The tool has now become the second software project of the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a Linux Foundation-owned open source association. "We want to contribute OpenColorIO back to the community that relies on it, and the Academy Software Foundation is a natural fit," Sony Pictures Imageworks vice president and head of software development Michael Ford said. "The developers and companies that use it every day will guide the project roadmap, starting with the features and release cadence for a new 2.0 version." That's awesome.

This is a huge 180 from earlier when they wanted to copyright the animation style of the movie. lol.

Hopefully with this; source filmaker and the rendering program that Pixar released the quality of amateur animations will improve even more.

More different ways to make and render animated porn

color correction tool, not any of the cool line animation stuff. rip

more like patenting specific technologies developed specifically for the film but hey same thing right??? A summary of the Sony patent application’s claims: Unique rendering and compositing technologies that can artistically modify the smooth shading of a surface via “stylized quantization.” Those technologies can add specific patterned-controls over the break-up of light hitting skin and also integrate half-tone dots and hatched lines (called “Screentones”). Also submitted by Sony: Ink-line software that allows an artist to draw on the character surface in a way that is liberated from the underlying geometry and more akin to illustration techniques. The hand-drawn lines of the character faces are converted to geometry and then rigged for animation control. The patent filing also includes the machine-learning component of the Spider-Verse animation process, which streamlines the process as an automated function that predicts the position of lines on the next frame. The extrapolated lines streamline the process and give animators an advantage for the fine-tuning the lines. The application also cited “stylized abstractions of reality” constructed with shading tools that create the illusion of depth on a flat surface, the emulation of interior volumes of buildings and illustrated graphic reflections. Also noted: artist-friendly lighting tools that interactively light-up large sections of buildings while maintaining crisp, hard shadows. also yeah this article is really bad clickbait, the tool they're releasing is just for color correction

Firstly, chill out. Second, just because something is legally sanctioned, doesn't mean it's morally just (which is what actually matters).

It's literally patenting software they created. I do not see the moral complications of this in the slightest, the concept itself is not theirs but merely the means of achieving it. Like I said, Nintendo's D-pad mechanism is patented but it stopped no-one from achieving the same thing with their own approach. Sorry for getting heated, but I really hate literally untrue things getting spread about at a base level

What on earth isn't "morally just" about patenting something that you spent the money to create?

I honestly don't know enough about this issue to say which side I would be on, I just don't really like the "but it's legal" argument

to be f this is only one component of that. color space management is far from the only thing they used to achieve the look of spiderverse

Morality of patents is a little more nuanced than that. I don't think Sirius implied that this case of patenting is immoral, rather just that legality doesn't make a thing right by default.

I'm confused, OCIO has been available for a very ling time now if I'm not mistaken? I've been using it for at least a year

It's not like you really need renderman from pixar or any other software from big companies to create a professional animation. Blender Foundation have been proving that for the last 10 years with their movies.