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Graphicspeak has a great Success Story from Jeff Patton, freelance CG artist known for his mechanical imagery for some big names.  Discussing a recent project for Mercedes Benz, he took his hour per frame renders in 3dsMax and converted them to iRay, and found renders completing in mere minues.

Patton said, “After I finished my first full Mercedes Benz project with the new Nvidia setup, I was stunned. Rendering out the images at 6K in the past took me about an hour per image using the CPU. With Iray and Quadro, I was able to knock that down to eight minutes — EIGHT minutes! It’s a huge benefit to be able to turn things around that much faster.”

The workstation he used had an Nvidia Quadro 6000 and a Tesla C2070 GPU, both fairly high-end cards.  Quadro 6000‘s run around $4,000, and a Tesla C2070 runs around $2,500.  That same $6,500 could have bought 3 of the BOXX renderPro systems.  With a linear improvement in rendertimes, he could have gone from 1 frame an hour to 4 frames an hour, against 7 frames an hour with the iRay solution.  Sounds like a win for iRay & CUDA to me.

via GraphicSpeak » Nvidia Iray and GPUs supercharge Mercedes Benz visualizations.

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The picture above is not a photograph.  It’s a rendered image from Viki Yeo, done with 3DSMax2009, ZBrush, Mental Ray and Photoshop.  He details how he started with reference photographs from www.3d.sk and modeled the girl’s head, to render that image, in the latest tutorial on CGarena.

Making of the Young Girl – CGArena.

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