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MaterialX Virtual Town Hall 2025

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Talk Intermediate

Jonathan Stone, Academy Software Foundation

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[video] MaterialX Virtual Town Hall 2025 is a free Academy Software Foundation YouTube recording of the 2025 MaterialX and OpenPBR virtual town hall hosted by Jonathan Stone of Lucasfilm ADG.

It covers MaterialX 1.39.x releases with USD alignment, OpenPBR 1.2 proposals such as specular haze and retroreflection plus an early OpenPBR Volume effort, RenderMan XPU MaterialX BSDF support with Pixar and Lucasfilm, IKEA translation graphs from Standard Surface to glTF PBR and USD Preview Surface, Octane 2026 MaterialX and OpenPBR plans, NVIDIA hex-tiling nodes and a sim-ready MaterialX library, and Autodesk Look/Bifrost and WebGPU generator updates.

It is for intermediate look-dev, DCC, and renderer engineers tracking open material interchange. Basic MaterialX or OpenPBR vocabulary helps; deep BSDF math is not required to follow the updates.

Access is a free multi-speaker YouTube town hall with slide-led talks and a short Q and A.

It is useful as a single session snapshot of 2025 MaterialX and OpenPBR adoption across studios and vendors.