This exploration is possible as Octane is both rendering the way light actually works and doing so interactively.

On my movie right now I’m using Octane, and we are playing with some skylights, making them larger and smaller and working ‘live’ you can see how the skylight is filling the room with more light”. “It just helps me see if problems are gonna arise. During these explorations of the set with Octane renders from C4D Miranda will make decisions on where the lights need to be and the layout of the sets in the sound stage. The great thing is that since it’s a physically-based render that I can use physically based lights which gives me kind of an idea of what’s possible”. For example, if he has to light a studio scene as an exterior he will “see if we have enough throw from the walls to make a realistic sun. He then converts this to Cinema 4D on his Mac, and “I will attempt to light it,” he explains. On his film projects, Miranda gets a digital copy of the sets from the Art Department which may be in Sketch format or a CAD file. Claudio MirandaĬlaudio Miranda became known for films such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Life of Pi(2012) and his collaborations with American director Joseph Kosinski, acting as cinematographer for all of his movies including this latest Top Gun: Maverick film. We spoke to the Academy Award-winning DOP Claudio Miranda, who is just finishing filming Top Gun: Maverick as well as Jules Urbach the CEO, of OTOY. This is key to Director of Photography Claudio Miranda.

Octane enables artists to create photoreal CG in real-time, that matches a real camera. It aims to follow the laws of physics and light precisely.

The original OctaneRender kicked off somewhat of a rendering revolution in 2010 – introducing the first unbiased GPU render engine. Octane X is fully compatible with macOS Catalina and will be available for free for new users on Macs with the release of macOS Big Sur coming this fall. This is significant for many reasons, but as Apple hardware does not support Nvidia RTX, there is a real demand for GPU ray tracing on the Mac. OTOY has now released the Octane X for macOS, it is an unbiased GPU renderer which will allow millions of Macs powered by Apple’s Metal graphics technology to deliver incredibly fast ray tracing. Apple has been working with OTOY to bring the Octane X to Professional Mac users since last year’s WWDC.

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