What VFX artists are asking...

[joe]

"Fractals for VFX
-can I import/export camera data?
-can I import/export mesh data / obj?
-can I render channels, such as z-depth, normals etc.?"

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[youhn]

How open source are VFX pipelines? Or maybe open protocols? What are the requirements to integrate software into a VFX enviroment?

And for the importing ... what data formats are being in use? Any open formats?