Gottfried Hofmann interviews François Beaune, who founded the open source Appleseed renderer.
François Beaune is the project founder and team leader of Appleseed, which is a render engine that is completely open source like Cycles or Luxrender. Appleseed is MIT-Licensed, which is probably the most liberal license in existance. It is availabe for Maya, Blender, Gaffer and other programs.
BD: François, tell us a little about the project and in what ways it is compatible with existing software.
FB: We have Plugins for Blender, Maya and there is a preliminary plugin for Houdini. Unfortunately none of those plugins are really feature complete at the moment, so it is a work-in-progress. We also would like to do real C++ integrations into Maya and Blender at least so users can have full real-time feedback for lighting and shading in the viewport. That are things we definitely need to improve. But we have bridges with most DCC apps.
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