Rendering crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan

Golaem CrowdRendering crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan Daniel Trusca – Golaem Crowd Lead Developer

Golaem Crowd Easy to use Powerful Integrated in Maya Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 2

Golaem Crowd Customers Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 3

Workflow Per Prod Assets Motions Characters Definition & Shaders AssetsStep 1: Assets Definition Autodesk MayaStep 2: PlaceStep 3: Navigation Per Shot Simulation Geometry &Step 4: Choreography Asset RepartitionStep 5: Export Rendering Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 4

Workflow Per Prod Characters Motions Assets & ShadersStep 1: Assets Definition Autodesk MayaStep 2: PlaceStep 3: Navigation Per Shot Simulation Geometry &Step 4: Choreography Asset RepartitionStep 5: Export Rendering Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 5

Assets DefinitionCrowd Diversity Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 6

Character & MotionsAnimation engine Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 7

Crowd Simulation Per Prod Assets Motions Characters Definition & Shaders AssetsStep 1: Assets Definition Autodesk MayaStep 2: PlaceStep 3: Navigation Per Shot Geometry &Step 4: Choreography Asset RepartitionStep 5: Export Rendering Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 8

Procedural RenderingSimulation Cache Geometry Asset Repartition GolaemCrowd Procedural GolaemCrowd Procedural Scene Description RIB WorldBegin ... Procedural "DynamicLoad" RenderMan ["glmCrowdRendermanPlugin" ...][bbox] WorldEnd Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 9

Step5: Procedural Rendering10k characters (19k faces each) on Core2 Quad 9550Export RIB (& Bboxes) + particle cache (4MB): < 1minRendering PrMan – 1080p – 2 samples MBlur: 9min16s Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 10

Designing RenderMan ShadersSlim Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 11

Shader Parameters Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 12

Export Crowd Simulation Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 13

Render with RenderMan Pro ServerExport Maya scene to RIB fileInclude Crowd RIB to scene RIBRender the scene RIB Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 14

Render with RenderMan Studio Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 15

Fortress battle sceneBackdrop: > 6 million polygonsComplex shaders and lighting5 500 charactersOne camera shot – 840 framesExplosions and smoke FX Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 16

Fortress Battle Scene Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 17

Fortress Battle Scene Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 18

Crowd Rendering @ Home1 rendering node 4 cores 15 – 25 minutes / frame Total render time: 8 days!1 day to finalize animation Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 19

Crowd Rendering with150 rendering nodes Each node: 8 cores 16 GB RAM 25 min / frame Total render time: 5 h1 day to finalize animation Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 20

Crowd Rendering withUpload assets and rib for one test frameDownload results for approvalUpload data for the whole sequence (7 GB)Download rendered frames (30 GB) 5 passes / frame Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 21

That’s All FolksGolaem Crowd 2.0Meet us @ booth #745Visit our website: http://www.golaem.com Golaem Crowd – Rendering Crowds with Pixar’s RenderMan 22

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