14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA announced three new additions to the Company's suite of professional software products for the film industry.
Gelato 2.0 rendering software, the latest major release of this product for film studios Amaretto, an Autodesk 3ds Max rendering plug-in for Gelato developed by Frantic Films Sorbetto lighting technology, an interactive tool that significantly accelerates the creation of realistic lighting
"We are seeing orders of magnitude speedup in relighting with Sorbetto compared to the alternative of launching full renders for each iterative change," said Larry Gritz, chief architect of the NVIDIA Gelato renderer. "This translates to final render quality imagery in several seconds rather than several minutes, at full film quality, complete with antialiasing, motion blur, and all the usual rendering effects. This is unprecedented in the film industry."
Along with these new products, NVIDIA is introducing a new pricing structure designed to make these tools more accessible to both large and small studios. Gelato with a choice of the Mango plug-in for Alias Maya or Amaretto plug-in for 3ds Max is now priced at only $1500, which includes the first year of maintenance and support. When using these plug-ins, users have access to all the features found in Gelato. Amaretto is currently in beta testing with availability planned for this fall.
NVIDIA will be demonstrating Gelato 2.0 and Sorbetto at SIGGRAPH 2005 as part of a digital production pipeline that provides a snapshot of how NVIDIA professional products help address the various workflow issues that customers have to deal with.