[non-Blender] Using NVIDIA GPUs for Feature Film Production at Pixar

Bart · April 3, 2014

Pixar is demonstrating how their animators used real-time animation features using NVIDIA GPUs for the production of Monsters University at the GPU Technology Conference 2014.

See more of this conference here.

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

8 responses

mikepan

4 April 2014 at 06:34

What’s surprising is how non-impressed I am by the physics-based-lighting stuff. Cycles has spoiled me. OpenSubDiv is cool, though.

Anuga
4 April 2014 at 13:35
Overall, I weren’t impressed either, sure that it was high-res was nice, but then again with a NVIDIA K6000 it’s not a problem.
Sure wish they’d add OpenSubDiv in Blender, now that they’ve changed the licenses as well so anyone can use it.
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tynaud

4 April 2014 at 08:48

That’s great, but I can’t afford this Nvidia K6000…

On a side part, did you notice the pose library with Sully faces ?
That’s very handy, quite the same than this one :
http://www.studiolibrary.com/
I hope Gooseberry will bring those kind of tools…