Image Planes in USD Proposal

[nxkb]

Description of Proposal

This proposal aims to add native support for Image Planes to USD. An Image Plane is a camera constrained image that can be seen in "screen space" when looking through that camera.

The majority of work in VFX is centered around augmenting existing footage, so it is important to view animation in the context of that footage (it doesn't matter if the animation looks good if it doesn't look integrated). Without this ability, the utility of tools like usdview is quite restricted and requires compositing before work can be evaluated in context.

Looking for help

If any VFX developers are looking to carry the torch for image planes please let me or the camera wg group know!

Contributing

• [X] I agree to and accept the Supplemental Terms.

[meshula]

Great! I'm merging in order that contributions in the form of issues or pull requests may begin!