Matt Fairclough — Founder and Lead Developer, Terragen
How do we translate atmospheric and geological phenomenon into CG? The creator of Hollywood’s favorite scenery generator talks mountains, Mars and milk.
Phil Miller — Vice President of Product Management, Chaos Group
One of the minds behind computing’s most important creative software has brought his expertise and passion to Chaos Group. He tells Chris his incredible story.
Profiling the NVIDIA RTX cards
You’ve seen the future of ray tracing and GPU rendering. Now learn how the GeForce RTX cards performed in Vlado’s benchmarking experiments, and what it means.
Four-years, 210 all-CG shots. The film that changed VFX workflows
Before “real-time ray tracing” was sexy: CONSTRUCT is the proof that a small team of top talent can literally change the future of VFX workflows.
Kevin Margo & Derron Ross — CONSTRUCT
After five years in production, Kevin Margo’s short film Construct has finally been released. Find out why it’s taken such a long time, and how this little film could change VFX workflows in a big way.
What does the new NVIDIA RTX hardware mean for ray tracing, GPU rendering & V-Ray?
With the big announcement of new GPU ray-tracing hardware, Vlado explains what this breakthrough means for the future of rendering.
Josh Naylor, Brian Sharp & Agnus Mckay — Unity and Oculus Medium
Real-time engines and VR, it's not just for games anymore, it's actually for productivity. Just ask the guys at Unity and Oculus Medium
V-Ray Next: Experiments with the NVIDIA Optix Denoiser
Noise is a common issue with rendering, usually solved by longer rendering. Another solution is denoising. Using NVIDIA's OptiX denoising algorithm, V-Ray experiments with real time denoising based on deep learning.