pixar finally makes it to GI

[Da_elf]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/21/44...mber_253474051

[kagemaru]

Well they've used gi for a long time now, not just for monster university, but using point based approaches.
What is happing now is that they've (finally) moved towards a phisically plausible shading paradigm and slowly ditching the reyes part in favor of a raytraced one. I guess Vray and Arnold really changed the industry and seeing pixar adapting means something.
I've seen "the blue umbrella" at annecy and it's really really a new photorealistic approach for them. The speaker also said (i guess unintentionally though) that they also composited a lot, defocusing in post using nuke. Another thing that didn't happen in the past...

[tricky]

Interesting. I wonder what they are using.

I remember the 'good old days' where we used a 'dome of light' rig to fake skylighting.

[Undersky]

I'm playing around in RenderMan as of now actually =) I think it can be a good compliment to V-Ray. Dof, discplacement and motion blur without waiting ages to render is really nice. Haven't touched the GI bit yet, but I read this yesterday:

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Ra...hing/paper.pdf

[andybot_cg]

who knows, maybe in 5 years they'll come up with something like proxies :P

[kagemaru]

who knows, maybe in 5 years they'll come up with something like proxies :P

Well to be fair rman has had (delayed) read archives for decades, maybe even before vray was originally released

[samuel_bubat]

The article sounds a bit like the just invented GI Welcome to 15 years ago Pixar .
No.. seriously I was always impressed by the look of Pixar´s movies. With or without GI.

[Undersky]

The article sounds a bit like the just invented GI Welcome to 15 years ago Pixar .
No.. seriously I was always impressed by the look of Pixar´s movies. With or without GI.

Yeah, they've lived in their own little bubble for so long, I think.

[Da_elf]

undersky thats the impression i got from the article as well. as though this is some brand new super invention they came up with.