Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Dorian Gentry | 04/06- 12:05 PM
Professional GPUs Slice Render Times Substantially and Help Bring a Cast of 120 Computer-Generated Desert Creatures to Life
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 6, 2011 — In Rango, the new Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon animated film directed by Gore Verbinski, visual effects facility Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was able to overcome production demands and timeline challenges with the help of NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions.
Approximately 450 ILM artists located in San Francisco and Singapore worked on Rango, each on a workstation equipped with NVIDIA Quadro solutions. The artists benefited from the speed of the graphics processing unit (GPU) when using animation tools such as Autodesk Maya, along with a range of ILM’s in-house applications.
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