Dan Bethell and Johannes Saam released RmanConnect today. This is a RenderMan display driver and Nuke node which communicate over TCP/IP so that you can render directly into Nuke. This has been primarily been developed for 3Delight, but should work with other RenderMan renderers, such as Prman. The source code has been released under a BSD license. Also Libero Spagnolini has an impressive shader building tool called  Shaderlink available to download which is built around 3Delight and PyQT. 3Delight itself was recently updated to version 9.0 and 3delight for Maya to 5.0. Highlights include support for Maya 2010, an unlimited thread license, multi-camera rendering and RIB fragments – see all the changes in the changelog.

Also the openSourceVFX.org website opened recently. This is intended to be a central portal of open source VFX projects and is being run by Larry Gritz, Chad Dombrov and Philippe Leprince. their goals include listing and presenting valuable open-source projects for the VFX community and giving a voice to OS project leaders and VFX pros to promote their work and keep us updated.

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