Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of our weekly In the NVIDIA Studio series, dedicated to outstanding artists, offering creative tips and tricks, and showing how NVIDIA Studio technology can enhance creative workflows. We also took an in-depth look at the features, technologies, and resources of the new GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs, and how they can dramatically speed up content creation.
Artists using the acclaimed GeForce RTX 4090 GPU are ready for massive performance boosts in mission-critical creative applications. OBS Studio and Google Chrome support AV1 encoding, Topaz AI apps and ON1 software add Tensor Core acceleration, and VTube Studio integrates NVIDIA Broadcast augmented reality for high quality and smooth avatar control.
In addition, the In the NVIDIA Studio Special Edition Horror Edition features two talented 3D artists and their Halloween-themed creations this week.
3D and VFX artist Eric Toualle, better known as ATOM, has shared his short series Mr. Pumpkin, which was created to test the motion capture technology and rendering speed of its new GeForce RTX 4090 GPU.
NVIDIA 3D artist Sabur Amirazodi is arguably Halloween’s biggest fan. Just look at the extraordinary, stunning light show he creates for his community every year. Its workflow is powered by a mobile workstation with an NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU.
Finally, check out the #From2Dto3D contest highlight, which features NVIDIA Studio’s favorite inspiring work in beautiful 3D.
The new GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs offer incredible upgrades to specialized hardware, including 3rd Gen RT Cores, 4th Gen Tensor Cores, and 8th Gen NVIDIA Dual AV1 encoders. These enhancements provide an accelerated creative workflow and accelerate creative applications in 3D modeling, video editing and more with AI-driven capabilities.
OBS Studio software version 28.1 adds support for AV1 encoding with a new NVIDIA encoder (called NVENC) that improves live streaming efficiency by 40%. These live streams look like they’ve seen a 40% increase in bandwidth – a huge increase in image quality. In addition, AV1 added support for extended dynamic range.
Google Chrome has released an update that enables AV1 encoding in all of its browser apps while improving live streaming efficiency by 40%.
VTube Studio has recently integrated the NVIDIA Broadcast app, adding AI-based face tracking. All you need to use the app is a simple webcam, no expensive specialized hardware. This gives more artists the tools to become VTubers while existing artists can better match their expression.
The Topaz Lab Video AI v3.0 release introduces an AI stabilization model that reduces camera shake by estimating camera movement and transforming frames for smoother footage. The update also introduces an AI slow motion model called Apollo, which builds on past motion models, handling non-linear motion and motion blur.
In addition, version 3.0 added the ability to have multiple AI models working on the same project at the same time. For example, the AI model can zoom in on footage when stabilization is enabled. With the NVIDIA TensorRT Software Development Kit, these features and models run up to 1.25x faster on NVIDIA GPUs. The application also now supports the popular NVIDIA AV1 dual encoder, allowing users to preview multiple input video files and export multiple projects at the same time.
NVIDIA has also partnered with photo editing software company ON1 to significantly improve the performance of the ON1 Resize application. Extended effects can now be applied more than 2x faster, and other enhancements are under development.
ATOM has been creating content for over a decade. His work was influenced by his love of old TV shows, darker artwork, and darker emotions in human nature.
“Human emotions always inspire me in art, especially negative emotions, because they make us stronger in life,” he said. “That’s why I love dark things.”
His short film “Mr. Pumpkin” jokingly experimented with motion capture, bringing the protagonist and his technical test to life. ATOM wanted to make sure that the atmosphere of the film was true. He created the tone of a mysterious night forest filled with volumetric light and fog. Mr. Pumpkin himself can be immediately considered the hero of Halloween.
Photogrammetry, a method of creating 3D models from a series of photographs, continues to be used as a true method for quickly creating high-quality 3D objects. Here the journey of ATOM begins with a real pumpkin.
ATOM filmed a video of a pumpkin in a homemade square rig that rotated a prop for a full scan. The artist then loaded the footage into Adobe After Effects and exported the footage to an image sequence in Adobe Substance 3D Sampler before loading it into Maxon Cinema 4D.
“Being able to do this kind of motion capture at home is a real revolution that used to require hiring a full motion capture studio,” notes ATOM.
ATOM has perfected the pumpkin using a full fidelity model that has been perfected. It then adjusts the textures and colors to achieve the desired result. Even scene lighting is quick and easy, he says, thanks to the GPU-accelerated viewport, which thanks to its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU enables smooth interaction with complex 3D models.
ATOM applies 3D effects like clouds, fog, and fire with virtually no slowdown, emphasizing the importance of GPUs when creating 3D content.
After animating and blocking the remaining elements of the scene, ATOM exported the file to Topaz Labs Video AI. AI footage upscaling with RTX acceleration maintains high detail accuracy and high temporal stability when upscaling to 4K resolution.
ATOM loves to share technology with the creative community and help others learn. “I try to spread the 3D world, films and everything that is visually beautiful as much as possible,” he said.
NVIDIA Studio and RTX GPUs remain critical to his workflow, or, as he puts it, “a staple of digital creativity…they are critical to all of the mission-critical creative applications used by communities today.”
As creative director and visual effects producer, NVIDIA artist Sabur Amirazodi will bring his 16 years of experience in multi-platform entertainment and media production to his home to create incredible Halloween installations. Make sure the sound is on when watching this video showing his haunted house:
The project required projection mapping, so the artist used the GPU-accelerated MadMapper software and its structured light scanning capabilities to apply custom visuals to the vast surfaces of his home.
Amirazodi does this by connecting a DSLR to a mobile workstation with an NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU. The camera takes a series of lines, takes a picture, and converts the image into the projector’s point of view, which serves as the basis for the 3D model. Basic camera matching tools in Cinema 4D help you recreate scenes.
Amirazodi uses the lidar camera on his mobile device to scan his house as he walks around it. He then created a full 3D model for a more detailed display and exported it to an FBX file.
Amirazodi works in Cinema 4D and OTOY OctaneRender for texturing, rigging, animation, lighting and scene rendering. GPU-accelerated viewports provide smooth interaction with complex 3D models.
Amirzodi then moved on to the compositing stage, importing his model cache into Adobe After Effects. With over 45 GPU-accelerated effects in software, its RTX A5000 GPU helps you retouch scenes faster, especially when correcting colors and reducing unwanted noise.
To make the installation possible, Amirasodi had to use Cinema 4D with OctaneRender to render a staggering 225GB of video files, including approximately 18,000 frames in 4K resolution.
OctaneRender by OTOY uses RTX acceleration and ray tracing provides lightning-fast exports. “I couldn’t render all these frames without my RTX A5000 GPU,” the artist said.
When asked why he was making all this effort, Amirazodi gave a touching answer: “My children,” he said. “Because of the pandemic, we couldn’t keep the tradition of visiting the haunted house at Disneyland, so I had to return the haunted house to my home.”
Amirazodi’s advice to future artists is simple – choose a theme and stick to it. “Take inspiration from your favorite creative communities like TurboSquid, ArtStation, or Sketchfab and start building and making projects,” he says. “Let your intuition take over to discover your flow state faster.”
Amirazodi specializes in video editing, 3D modeling and interactive experiences. Check out the work of the creative experts on IMDb.
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Post time: Nov-04-2022