The future of RenderMan & USD - Pixar CTO Steve May interview - SIGGRAPH 2022
00:00 - Intro
01:44 - new denoiser in RenderMan
02:12 - From internal research to RenderMan feature
02:48 - XPU will replace RIS
04:09 - USD, the key to the Metaverse?
04:46 - creating a Pixar movie is similar to the Metaverse
05:41 - layers in USD
06:38 - Limitations of USD?
07:44 - External contributions & other companies
08:29 - Vastly expanded USD team
09:03 - Omniverse at Pixar?
10:28 - SIGGRAPH 2022 - takeaway
11:56 - New tech adoption
During SIGGRAPH 2022, we had the chance to chat with Pixar CTO Steve May & to discuss the latest RenderMan improvements (new denoiser, XPU), how Pixar manages to turn research projects into features ready to be used by RenderMan users.
We also discussed USD: is this 3D scene description format really the key to the metaverse? Is it ready for it, or is there still some work to do? And how does Pixar & other companies work together on improving it?
Steve May also gave us his take on Omniverse, and explained how Pixar gets inspired by SIGGRAPH.
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