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Mass Effect 3: Take Earth Back Cinematic Trailer
Can’t wait, this is my favorite series in gaming and Mass Effect 3 is looking incredible.
The only problem is that Commander Shepard is a women. Jennifer Hale has done an outstanding job with the voice acting — there’s just no comparison.
Bioware finally recognizes this and they’ve fixed the cinematic trailer. Unfortunately they don’t recognize it with enough conviction to upload 1080p version to YouTube.
Edit: I forgot to mention, the animation is superb and there’s another great — though not cinematic — trailer that’s worth watching.
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Let’s pause for a moment to give a quick background on what we’re talking about here. In computer graphics, rendering is the process of turning what is essentially data in a graphics package into images. Typically, these images are frames used for creating portions of film. Rendering is an intensive process, and can take anywhere from a few hours to days per frame to complete a single image depending on the complexity of the scene. This is generally done on massive farms of CPU cores, through which distribution of the processing allows for a speedier result.
Most large studios operate their own render farms, which require vast amounts of capital for upkeep and operation costs. Expensive hardware purchases aside, render farm costs are high because of the monumental electricity use, as well as the costs in keeping the farm cooled. The paradox of the render farm is that the smaller studios that need the power and speed of a render farm to compete at the level of large studios typically cannot afford the equipment and upkeep costs required to deliver those kind of results.
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Pixar and RenderMan: Changing the distributed rendering game « Icrontic
It’s great to see Bobby Miller writing about 3D again, he’s one of the finest gentleman you’ll ever meet and he knows way too much about GPUs.
