Arnold Render

[Bucket]

Apparently this has been in development for a really long time. Supposed to have been used in Monster house and Cloudy with a Chance of meatballs. Hopefully more information will become available overtime. A guy on the softimage mailing list is showing off beta renderings made with the si version of Arnold. It's supposed to be really really fast. Pretty cool..

Render animation

http://ericknelson.com/wurp/arnold_gi_anim.mov
http://ericknelson.com/wurp/arnold_gi_anim_rbd.mov

More comparisons.






http://ericknelson.com/wurp/arnold_s...n_examples.jpg
http://ericknelson.com/wurp/Arnold_classroom_01.png
http://ericknelson.com/wurp/tank_glossy_new_0.jpg
http://ericknelson.com/wurp/mr_vs_arnold_mblur.png

Comparison between mr and arnold.
http://ericknelson.com/wurp/arnold_scifi_01.png
http://ericknelson.com/wurp/mentalray_scifi_01.png

[Bucket]

Andreas Bystrom is the guy showing of the test renders on the list. It's pretty cool stuff.




245 billion polygons.





A close up






some other renderings.

[Bucket]

Found a video demonstrating the speed of arnold in xsi. (I think) Very impressive. I do sort of wonder what kind of hardware this is being run on. But still very impressive.




Also here is an image by Andreas Bystrom (I think) I forgot to t link to.

[Jeremy]

Is this what all the giggling on the list has been about?

Seems fast in that Viper video. Some of those render times still seem long though... we'll see I guess.

I think just about anything would be faster than what we've got currently.

[Bucket]

Yeah.. mr isn't bad. (though this test sure makes it look bad) If we could have something faster and more efficient.. The better.. I'd be more of a render junkie if getting the look I wanted didn't mean moving a slider and sitting on my hands for a minutes/hours just to see something that I don't like.

[Bucket]

Old Arnold stuff from long ago. http://www.3dluvr.com/marcosss/



Not sure about this... Marcos Fajardo is listed in the credits... Maybe another one of his early experiments with gi.