Rendering supercharged
Leadwerks says its Ultra Engine unlocks the full power of graphics hardware.
Christmas comes early for architects and designers
Enscape, which merged with Chaos early in 2022, released a bridge between their respective software that streamlines the workflow between Enscape and Chaos’ V-Ray.
Krakatoa MY and XMesh MY open source, oh my!
AWS renders the two Autodesk Maya plug-ins open source after making them free a few months ago.
Nvidia’s Instant NeRF named as one of the year’s top innovations
Time magazine recognizes Nvidia’s new 3D technology as one of the Best Inventions of 2022.
Getting into the swing of Spider-Man Remastered on the PC
After spending many hours completing Spider-Man Remastered main story and being unable to tear ourselves away from the screen, editors at BabelTechReviews (BTR) recommend it as a great game with a few flaws. Mark Poppin, Mario Vasquez, and I have collaborated on this review, each of us playing the game for 20 or more hours. We cover the gameplay, updated … Read more
The case for desktop workstations
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) recently reported that the overall workstation market volume in Q1’21 grew about 27.7% YoY, a milestone for workstation sales. The strong rebound in workstation shipments was no surprise, as positive signs regarding the pandemic by mid-quarter (in the US and EMEA particularly), along with successful deployment of vaccines (though geographically varying) clearly improved purchasing outlooks among … Read more
RenderMan 24: Pixar’s latest release focuses on look development
Pixar recently released RenderMan version 24. The highlight of this release is a new CPU + GPU hybrid renderer called RenderMan XPU. Pixar says that XPU has been designed for look development and to provide a good match to RenderMan's production pathtracer, RIS. XPU can handle the scale and complexity of Pixar’s feature animation projects. Pixar’s next-gen rendering engine can … Read more
SiliconArts Signs Development Agreement with Pixilica for RayCore GPU Core
SiliconArts today announced a development agreement with Pixilica for its next-generation Monti Carlo RayCore graphics architecture, Pixilica is a RISC-V developer.
Epic adds universal scene description and ray tracing
(Source: Epic) Epic has made some major improvements and upgrades to its popular game engine, Unreal. With the release of Unreal Engine 4.25, Epic has expanded the toolset to include content creation and editing for more areas of game and visualization development. Epic says their linear media tools are improved to enable even more immersive and efficient production of … Read more
Is ray tracing catching on?
Source: Francis Damm It was late July 2018, when Nvidia surprised and delighted the world with the introduction of its RTX GPU that could deliver real-time ray tracing, dubbed RTRT. If you build it, will they come? It was a gamble. Nvidia had to not only design and manufacture the chip, but they also had to build a toolset … Read more
Epic Games buys Cubic Motion for facial mapping technology
Epic’s latest acquisition, Cubic Motion of Manchester, England, consolidates the work the two companies have been doing in virtual production. Game engines have been adapted for virtual production probably since at least 2013 or so. Tinkerers in film production were quietly playing with game engines as a tool for interactive capture with the advantage of realtime rendering so that filmmakers … Read more
Autodesk’s ray tracer Arnold gets GPU support
Autodesk recently announced that Arnold 6 with Arnold GPU is available. First unveiled as a beta release in March, the company says Arnold 6 completes the Arnold GPU toolset with improvements across lights, shaders, and cameras, as well as on-demand texture loading and support for Open Shading Language (OSL) and OpenVDB volumes. Additionally, as part of Autodesk’s efforts for the … Read more