Despite its tough challenges, our global pandemic has opened the door to big opportunities, ushering in incredible innovation in visual effects and the discovery of amazing talent regardless of location. Real-time technology and tools, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the rise of volume rendering, in conjunction with geometric rendering, are transforming storytelling. Collaboration on open technologies through the Academy Software Foundation is accelerating and democratizing development. Rob Bredow, SVP and Chief Creative Officer at Industrial Light & Magic, and Jim Jeffers, Senior Principal Engineer and Senior Director of Intel’s Advanced Rendering and Visualization team, cover these topics and more on this episode.

Guests:

• Rob Bredow, SVP and Chief Creative Officer, Industrial Light & Magic
• Jim Jeffers, Senior Principal Engineer and Senior Director of Advanced Rendering and Visualization, Intel

To learn more:
Academy Software Foundation
Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit
oneAPI

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Tags: Academy Software Foundation, AI, artificial intelligence, Disney, Diversity, Embree, geometric rendering, inclusion, Industrial Light & Magic, Intel, Intel oneAPI Rendering Library, Jim Jeffers, Linux Foundation, Lucasfilm, machine learning, MaterialX, ML, oneAPI, Open Source, Open Volume Kernel Library, OpenEXR, OpenVDB, OpenVKL, Real-Time, rendering, Rob Bredow, Star Wars, storytelling, VFX, Visual effects, volumetric rendering
 
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