Real-time ray tracing, the holy grail of graphics, is now possible thanks to the NVIDIA Turing architecture and the NVIDIA RTX development platform. This robot arm is modeled and designed by Gregor Kopka and textured and rendered by myself in Substance Painter/Designer This is a demo using that technology created by the art team here at Nvidia. This was a huge collaboration of artists to make this happen. Thanks to everyone involved. Please checkout this interview for more details on my involvement or the other Project Sol images on my artstation profile. https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/real-time-ray-tracing-future-nvidia-s-project-sol-textured-substance For more artists work, see these guys awesome profiles! Gavriil Klimov - www.artstation.com/hexeract Gregor Kopka - www.artstation.com/scrutch David Lesperance - www.artstation.com/metalman123456123 Ilya Shelementsev - www.artstation.com/devmod Fred Hooper - www.artstation.com/freddyhoops

A showcase of VFX and Technical Art I made for the game Nim: - Intro cutscene animation with multiple small VFX added to it - Startscreen featuring multiple VFX - A fairies-in-a-bottle blueprint - A lot of different fairy-logic-based VFX - Wispy wisps (Just Mesh panners woop woop) - Jump effect - Time slow effect - Play it here: https://itch.io/profile/daydee - Nim is a puzzle platform game set in a tree top environment where you play as a spirit of the forest that aim to bring balance to it by reviving the Tree of Life. - The game features a Hook and Tethering mechanic where the player can hook objects and tether them to other points in the environment in order to traverse the puzzles. - This was a Futuregames Game Project where I worked as the VFX and Technical Artist. - Nim's animations made by Emil Rönnlund ( https://www.artstation.com/vlaar2 ) - Last concept art picture & Thumbnail made by Jon Lundqvist ( https://www.artstation.com/jon_lundqvist )

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Real-time ray tracing, the holy grail of graphics, is now possible thanks to the NVIDIA Turing architecture and the NVIDIA RTX development platform. This door is modeled and designed by Gregor Kopka and textured and rendered by myself in Substance Painter/Designer This is a demo using that technology created by the art team here at Nvidia. This was a huge collaboration of artists to make this happen. Thanks to everyone involved. Please checkout this interview for more details on my involvement or the other Project Sol images on my artstation profile. https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/real-time-ray-tracing-future-nvidia-s-project-sol-textured-substance For more artists work, see these guys awesome profiles! Gavriil Klimov - www.artstation.com/hexeract Gregor Kopka - www.artstation.com/scrutch David Lesperance - www.artstation.com/metalman123456123 Ilya Shelementsev - www.artstation.com/devmod Fred Hooper - www.artstation.com/freddyhoops

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