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 Turtle from Illuminate Labs Now Available Posted by: amigo
Source: Press Release
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004
Gothenburg, Sweden – June 30, 2004 – After thirteen months of beta testing at over 200 sites, Illuminate Labs today announces the immediate availability of Turtle™ for Maya®. During beta testing, Turtle has been used with great results in production of films, games, product design and architectural visualization.
Turtle for Maya is a radically fast photorealistic renderer for CGI creation. Turtle provides Maya users with a previously unseen ease-of-use, flexible workflow, superior rendering performance, proven stability and several unique features for production use.
Film studios, game studios, architecture firms, design departments and universities around the world have pre-ordered Turtle:
"Finally! A fast and high-quality Global Illumination tool integrated into the Maya interface. Our studio is extremely excited with the prospect of applying Turtle lighting results to our current and future Playstation software titles" said Francois Gilbert, Lead Artist at Sony Computer Entertainment America who are integrating Turtle into their pipeline.
“Turtle simply gives you the best of everything! Turtle has the best integration of any renderer in Maya, it offers the best raytracing speed, it renders larger scenes than other renderers can handle and it offers the latest rendering technologies in Global Illumination, Final Gather and Ambient Occlusion. All this plus one of the best technical support teams in the industry makes Illuminate Labs a wonderfully fresh alternative”, says Sylvain Berger, Technical Director at Alpha Vision, a leading architectural visualization studio in North America.
Reviews of Turtle for Maya will be published by independent media during the coming month. Media focusing on 3D and CG content creation are invited and encouraged to evaluate Turtle on behalf of their readers/viewers.
Turtle is completely integrated with Maya. Turtle is accessed through the Maya graphical user interface. Turtle can render both internally in Maya and externally as a standalone application.
Platforms
Windows NT/2000/XP and Linux are supported for Maya 5
Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux and OS X are supported for Maya 6
Technology
New LiquidLight® raytracing and global illumination algorithms with support for caustics, color bleeding and other global illumination effects
Standout Features
-Support for Maya shading networks
-Support for large scenes
-Fast final gather and global illumination
-Fast ambient occlusion
-Skylight (fast diffuse lighting)
-Preview Mode (interactive visualization with raytracing and global illumination)
-True 3D motion blur
-Fast 2D motion blur
-True depth-of-field
-HDRI and image based lighting
-Micropolygon displacement mapping
-Render as subdivision surface
-Support for ZBrush displacement maps
-Support for OpenEXR
-Texture baking with global illumination effects and occlusion maps
Pricing and Availability
Turtle for Maya is available as floating and node-locked licenses. Commercial prices are:
-Workstation license (with GUI) $1.199 USD/node (per machine, not per cpu)
-Render node license (without GUI) $999 USD/node (per machine, not per cpu)
About Illuminate Labs
Illuminate Labs was founded in 2002 to commercialize research breakthroughs in computer graphics at the Chalmers University of Technology. Illuminate Labs develops and markets rendering technology for CGI, design visualization and digital content creation. Illuminate Labs' new rendering technology, LiquidLight®, allows rendering of complex scenes with advanced lighting at previously unseen rendering speed. In essence, the more complex the scene and the more advanced lighting used - the faster will the comparative speedup be compared to today's software rendering technology. Turtle for Maya is the first product launched by Illuminate Labs.
Related Links: Illuminate Labs website
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