I believe we’re all going to be making our films on or GPU:s in real time in the near future. The “old world” have a bit of a problem adjusting to this. A lot of the large software houses are adding GPU acceleration to the CPU work flow – but that will always be an “add on” until everything is written from the ground up for complete GPU computing.

I found this software the other day. It’s from Refractive Software and what it does is give you real time photo real rendering. Something that takes for ever on a CPU. The extreme high quality stuff takes a few minutes – but it’s far from what you’d expect from most other packages with that image output quality.

I’m still waiting for the first Machina animation package to utilize a higher end modern GPU engine like CUDA. Most of what’s out there uses the old game engines like Quake. The technology is here. Now it’s up to a creative and innovative company to utilize it for profit and benefit creative’s all over the world.

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