USD Contributors (Historical)

Note

This page is a historical list of contributors to OpenUSD, including many Pixarians who contributed ideas and code to the generations of software that preceded and inspired OpenUSD, but is not current nor complete. See this list of contributors for an up-to-date list of all contributors specifically to the OpenUSD GitHub repo.

The following list is almost certainly incomplete, but is an attempt to credit all the folks who have contributed not just code but ideas to the evolution of scene description that is today embodied in USD, between 1995 and 2019 at Pixar.

In addition to the folks listed below who have contributed code or direct support, we would especially and specifically like to thank the Pixar leadership for their forward-thinking and support for allowing and encouraging the USD project to be open-sourced, including Ed Catmull, Jim Morris, Steve May, and Guido Quaroni. Guido provided the initial proposition and challenge for creating USD, and Bill Polson navigated the sea of patents we needed to release to make USD public.

  • David Aguilar

  • Brad Andalman

  • Jim Atkinson

  • Aloys Baillet

  • Raja Bala

  • David Baraff

  • Savannah Baron

  • Andrew Bauer

  • Alan Blevins

  • Sunya Boonyatera

  • Alan Bucior

  • Ryan Bujnowicz

  • Ivan Calderon

  • Antony Carysforth

  • Tom Cauchois

  • Benjamin Coquelle

  • Jeremy Cowles

  • Damien Courtois

  • Bena Currin

  • Marco da Silva

  • Steven Dao

  • Joachim De Deken

  • Tony DeRose

  • Dave Dixon

  • Chad Dombrova

  • Paul Edmondson

  • Robert Ell

  • George ElKoura

  • McKay Farley

  • Mike Ferris

  • Josh Filstrup

  • Greg Finch

  • Kurt Fleischer

  • Alex Fuller

  • Daniel Garcia

  • Stefaan Ghysels

  • Matthias Goerner

  • F. Sebastian Grassia

  • Eric Gregory

  • Stephen Gustafson

  • Tom Hahn

  • Brian Harris

  • Stephen Hassard

  • Valerie Hau

  • Florian Hecht

  • Joseph Heck

  • Jamie Hecker

  • Mark Hessler

  • Joseph W. Hura

  • Shriram Neelakanta Iyer

  • Oren Jacob

  • Rob Jensen

  • Pol Jeremias-Vila

  • Matthew Johnson

  • Michael Johnson

  • Sue Maatouk Kalache

  • Nick Kendall-Bar

  • Jamie Kenyon

  • Jason Kim

  • Chris King

  • Krzysztof Klimczyk

  • Denis Kovacs

  • Matthew Kuruc

  • Steve LaVietes

  • Ian Lawson

  • John LeGrande

  • Brett Levin

  • Peng Liu

  • John Loy

  • Kyle Lovrien

  • Aaron Luk

  • Karen Lucknavalai

  • Ed Luong

  • Fabrice Macagno

  • Dan McGarry

  • Pal Mezei

  • Tim Milliron

  • Bruce Mitchener

  • Alex Mohr

  • Paul Molodowitch

  • Alicia Mooty

  • Eoin Murphy

  • JD Northrup

  • Daniel Leaf Nunes

  • Cory Omand

  • Leonid Onokhov

  • Darwyn Peachey

  • Pavlo Penenko

  • Davide Pesare

  • Nick Porcino

  • John Pottebaum

  • Guido Quaroni

  • Arun Rao

  • Corey Revilla

  • Kees Rijnen

  • Susan Salituro

  • Florian Sauer

  • Chris Schoeneman

  • Alex Schwank

  • Peter Shinners

  • Tim Speltz

  • Rachel Strickler

  • Morgan Strong

  • Sho Sumioka

  • Takahito Tejima

  • Jessica Tran

  • Mark Tucker

  • Carl Van Arsdall

  • Dirk Van Gelder

  • Brandon Wang

  • Freeson Wang

  • Kelly Wang

  • John Warren

  • Douglas Waters

  • Chad Williams

  • Matthew Williams

  • Adam Woodbury

  • David Yu

  • Jack Zhao

  • Florian Zitzelsberger

  • Roman Zulak