He also noted that Isotropix “really want” Angie looks to work with the Clarisse renderer, but that this couldn’t be guaranteed, at least for the initial release.Īngie was originally scheduled for a public release in 2021, but in the latest video, Isotropix doesn’t give a date. Lights should be relatively straightforward, with Isotropix aiming to provide a script to convert them between the two render engines, but existing Clarisse looks will not transfer to Angie.Īssadian noted that simple cases, like looks based on the Autodesk Standard Surface material, will “translate easily”, but things get “way more difficult” once a material is connected to texture nodes. However, Angie uses separate lights and materials to the existing renderer, which will be an obstacle to workflow during the transition period. In it, Isotropix CEO Sam Assadian reveals that Angie will initially be introduced in parallel with the existing Clarisse Renderer, but it ultimately intended to deprecate it. There is also an FAQs section, which provides more detail on how Angie will fit into production pipelines. In contrast to the original demo, it shows Angie running on consumer hardware, rendering 2.2x faster with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 in a gaming laptop than with its AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X CPU alone.
It’s actually a recording of a livestream from last month, but we only spotted it when it was featured in Isotropix’s newsletter. Updated 17 September 2021: Isotropix has posted a new video of Angie. The render engine is based on Open Shading Language, is “fully compatible” with MaterialX, and compliant with R2C, Isotropix’s open-source library for integrating Clarisse with third-party renderers. Updated: Isotropix tells us that Angie also uses Nvidia’s CUDA and OptiX APIs and requires a Nvidia card for GPU rendering, although “this may change in future”. However, according to the demo video, it is “completely denoiser friendly” – which, in the case of Clarisse, would mean that it is compatible with the software’s existing Nvidia-only denoising systems. Isotropix’s news announcement doesn’t include any information on which compute API Angie is based on, so we aren’t sure whether it runs on all manufacturers’ GPUs, or on all operating systems. Supports at least some key open standards However, using both CPU and GPU increases power consumption significantly, so artists using the new hybrid mode will need to balance speed against cost.įor the test system in the demo video, power draw was over 100W higher when rendering on CPU and GPU than when rendering on CPU or GPU alone.Īs well as final-quality renders, hybrid mode can be used for interactive renders: the demo shows the Florence scene being edited and the viewport display updating in near-real time.
With both CPU and GPU, it takes 99 seconds: 2.3x faster than CPU alone, and 1.5x faster than GPU alone. On the CPU alone, a final-quality render takes 231 seconds. The demo video above shows a 450-billion-triangle test scene of the city of Florence created by Industrial Light & Magic artist Mickael Riciotti running on a system with a current top-of-the-range 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X CPU and Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000 GPU. It is also possible to co-opt both CPU and GPU for rendering, further increasing render speed. Shown in action with a 450-billion-triangle 3D environmentĮven when running purely on the CPU, Angie is significantly faster than Clarisse’s existing engine: Isotropix claims that its CPU-only mode is “up to 10x faster” tha the current version of Clarisse. On top of that, when using current top-of-the-range workstation processors, rendering on both CPU and GPU is over 2x faster than rendering on the CPU alone. The company says that on dense production scenes, Angie is “up to 10x faster” than the current version of Clarisse when rendering on the CPU. Isotropix has posted a preview video of Angie, the next-gen hybrid CPU/GPU rendering engine due to be rolled out next year in Clarisse iFX and Clarisse Builder, its layout, lighting and rendering software. Scroll down for the latest demo and the FAQs.
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