[sandykoufax]

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-state-of-rendering/

Next Limit for example is following the CUDA/OpenCL situation, and would certainly consider down the road exploring new platforms like GPU if the landscape stabilized. “We are paying a lot of attention to how it is evolving and eventually we will expand Maxwell, if it doesn’t mean sacrificing quality or functionality,” says Next Limit’s Juan Canada.

Besides this paragraph, it's interesting article.

[hatts]

Great read; just as good as their last one.

[pipcleo]

"Next Limit have already implemented deep color into Maxwell Render and it is currently in Beta to be shipping with the new Release 3.0 around October hopefully (along with Alembic, OpenEXR 2.0 etc Next limit is committed to open source generally)."

[Half Life]

"Next Limit have already implemented deep color into Maxwell Render and it is currently in Beta to be shipping with the new Release 3.0 around October hopefully (along with Alembic, OpenEXR 2.0 etc Next limit is committed to open source generally)."

Very interesting...

[sandykoufax]

Part 2 http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-sta ... ng-part-2/

Head image is Herve's one.

[Hervé]

thanks for the link Sandy..

[dmeyer]

Part 2 http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-sta ... ng-part-2/

Head image is Herve's one.

Good stuff.

Like how Mike refers to Maxwell as "the truth" in rendering.

[dariolanza]

Glad to know you like it.

Finally Maxwell is getting the visibility it deserves in the rendering realm ; )

Cheers!

Dario Lanza

[dmeyer]

Glad to know you like it.

Finally Maxwell is getting the visibility it deserves in the rendering realm ; )

Cheers!

Dario Lanza

The article states that Juan is giving a proper talk at siggraph? When/where?

[numerobis]

“There will be between 25 and 30 new features from volumetrics to deep compositing, it is a major release, the biggest release in our history,”

I really hope that a significant performance boost for critical situations is one of those "new features"... and that this means that finally the engine limitations get solved (caustics through dielectrics, etc. - formerly announced as RS2 ages ago for v2...) looking at this "the truth in rendering" statement...
"new features" are always nice, but if the basics are still not working they are really not very helpful.

[dmeyer]

Glad to know you like it.

Finally Maxwell is getting the visibility it deserves in the rendering realm ; )

Cheers!

Dario Lanza

The article states that Juan is giving a proper talk at siggraph? When/where?

Nevermind, found it.

Recent Advances in
Light-Transport Simulation:
Theory & Practice
Sunday, 21 July, 2-5:15 pm

A survey of recent advances in robust
light-transport simulation methods.
Based on a clear exposition of the pathintegral
framework, the course discusses
a wide range of algorithms and the issues
that arise when these advanced methods
are applied in practice.

Jaroslav Krivanek
Charles University in Prague
Iliyan Georgiev
Universität des Saarlandes
Anton S. Kaplanyan
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Juan Cañada
Next Limit Technologies