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Scene Referred vs Display Referred color workflows
Display Referred it is tied to the target hardware, as such it bakes color requirements into every type of media output request.
Scene Referred uses a common unified wide gamut and targeting audience through CDL and DI libraries instead.
So that color information stays untouched and only “transformed” as/when needed.
Sources:
– Victor Perez – Color Management Fundamentals & ACES Workflows in Nuke
– https://z-fx.nl/ColorspACES.pdf
– Wicus
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Autodesk open sources Aurora – an interactive path tracing renderer that leverages graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware ray tracing
https://github.com/autodesk/Aurora
Goals for Aurora
- Renders noise-free in 50 milliseconds or less per frame.
- Intended for design iteration (viewport, performance) rather than final frames (production, quality), which are produced from a renderer like Autodesk Arnold.
- OS-independent: Runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS.
- Vendor-independent: Runs on GPUs from AMD, Apple, Intel, NVIDIA.
Features
- Path tracing and the global effects that come with it: soft shadows, reflections, refractions, bounced light, and others.
- Autodesk Standard Surface materials defined with MaterialX documents.
- Arbitrary blended layers of materials, which can be used to implement decals.
- Environment lighting with a wrap-around lat-long image.
- Triangle geometry with object instancing.
- Real-time denoising
- Interactive performance for complex scenes.
- A USD Hydra render delegate called HdAurora.
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Peregrine Bokeh moving to Foundry Nuke
After 12 years developing and supporting Bokeh we are excited to announce the product has found a new home with Foundry.
https://peregrinelabs.com/blogs/news/bokeh-has-a-new-home
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Fitpoly or polynomial regression plots for converting sparse data into an usable curve formula
https://www.geogebra.org/calculator
- enter the sparse data
- make a list out of it
- use a fitpoly(listname,3) function to return a curve and related formula
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Virtual Production Offers Real Savings For Studios Of All Sizes
Rob Legato, the award-winning FFX Supervisor whose work you may have seen in movies like Titanic, Avatar and The Jungle Book, is incredibly bullish on virtual production. At the Microsoft Production Summit, presented by NVIDIA NVDA +0.2%& Unreal Engine in Los Angeles, he reported that he recently did a movie with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in twenty-four days, “Cutting down the days cut down the budget, and it’s amazing what a difference that can make. Productions can now do for $25 million what used to cost $100 million.”
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Cloud based render farms
https://all3dp.com/2/best-render-farm/
“Pricing varies between companies, with fee structures based on aspects like file size and minutes of rendering. Here, we’ve put together a list of 10 great render farms, with many offering a free trial or starting credit. And we’re not playing favorites: The 10 companies are listed in alphabetical order!”
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