A GLOBAL, FULLY VIRTUALISED, COLLABORATIVE WORKFLOW IN REAL TIME
The Future of Virtual Workstations Has Arrived
A still from a virtual RTX Renderer demonstration of photorealistic real time rendering within a virtual environment
shot and can reduce perceptual fatigue and focus more on the creativity
Baselight grading suite
The possibilities for virtual production are extraordinary. Artists can scout, build, adapt and light a scene within an LED volume while the director’s on set, but where the artists could be hundreds of miles away and remote from each other.
If the data is where you are viewing it, then where the artists are makes no difference. The director can be reviewing and making changes to the scene in real time.
Parallel workflows
What has been a linear, sequential process can be collapsed into a much more parallel process with artists collaboratively modelling, creating layouts, light path tracing and applying other visual effects. And all of this creativity is achieved synchronously within the same model with full version control. This can dramatically accelerate turnaround times, save money and deliver a better outcome with a greater focus on the overall creative intent.
Latency is not an issue. At Escape Technology, we’ve been testing this new workflow, running systems from London and Dublin with artists as far away as Sofia and Rome without any perceptual loss of performance. It as if the data is local but the machines can be hundreds of miles away. The perceptual issue only becomes prevalent if the artist is working on the other side of the planet but there are already products coming through that can fix that issue.
NVIDIA and HP Deliver Scale
To achieve this new paradigm the studio needs to have an infrastructure that can support this workflow That infrastructure starts with
And by putting that compute and storage as close together as possible, the artist can be anywhere in the world harnessing the potential that NVIDIA Omniverse and Pixar USD offer. The collaborative, parallel utilisation of Pixar USD on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform combined with the performance of the virtual RTX renderer significantly speeds up the iterative process and improves the end creative.
NVMe over fabric and solid-state solutions (in conjunction with spinning disc). By placing HP’s Z4R workstations in the data centre next to the storage and utilising NVIDIA Mellanox to achieve greater performance, the artist can pull thousands of files rather than single files, with up to a 100gig network if required.
The artist is no longer loading a single 3DS Max or Maya file one at a time, but instead could be loading hundreds, if not thousands of USD files simultaneously.
There is a better way
NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS) software combined with NVIDIA’s world- leading GPUs are a dynamic force for visual computing, delivering the most powerful virtual workstations from the data centre or cloud to any device.
Millions of creative and technical professionals can access the most demanding applications from anywhere, with awe-inspiring performance that rivals physical workstations, all while meeting the need for greater security.
How NVIDIA Omniverse is accelerating the VFX pipeline
The NVIDIA Omniverse™ open platform directly addresses the bottlenecks within the VFX pipeline to enable real-time collaboration and real-time photorealistic rendering for a globally distributed workforce while resolving application incompatibilities and greatly accelerating the iterative process.
The NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a cloud- native, multi-GPU enabled open platform for virtual collaboration and real-time photorealistic ray tracing and simulation
Pixar’s USD - Universal Screen Description - is the foundation for NVIDIA Omniverse™
Working with NVIDIA, HP and Teradici, Escape Technology has brought together a truly modern, robust and secure workflow solution to accelerate your VFX pipeline working – collaboratively and in real-time - with a globally distributed workforce
Hear Escape Technology’s CTO Lee Danskin express the new vision for remote VFX workflows and find out more at:
escape-technology.com/omniversetrial
This open-source 3D scene description and file format is easily extensible, originally developed to simplify content creation and the interchange of assets between different industry software tools. USD began in the animation and visual effects industry to enable collaboration across globally spread teams.
From initial concept design and previz to editing virtual production sets in real-time
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