VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alembic 1.0, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd., was released to the public today. The release was announced at ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

LOS ANGELES, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- At the ACM SIGGRAPH conference today visual effects houses Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Sony Pictures Imageworks announced a co-developed open source project titled Alembic.

BURBANK, Calif., Sept.

SAN FRANCISCO - In these hallowed halls, Indiana Jones almost seems out of place. A banner with a two-dimensional cutout of the swashbuckling archaeologist swings through the lobby of Industrial Light and Magic.

"Indy's" first three films were physical, gritty and sweaty, in large part because everything onscreen physically existed somewhere. But this is not true with the latest film, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", although it was almost the case.