Golaem Crowd Siggraph 2012 Demo: Fortress Assault
If you could not make it to Siggraph this year, maybe you missed our new Golaem Crowd demo: Fortress Assault.
This demo includes 5 500 soldiers attacking & defending a huge fortress, and demonstrates the features of Golaem Crowd 2.0, released on the first day of the exhibition.
All modeling, rendering and compositing have been done by our in-house artist: Axel Domenger.
The success of this demo is really the result of our collaboration with great partners.
Pixar & Greenbutton
We partnered with Pixar and Greenbutton in order to render our scene with Renderman on Demand (using Microsoft Windows Azure) using the last beta version of Pixar's Renderman ProServer 17 (which improved tremendously our processing time!).
If you are wondering about the rendering stats, you can have a look at our presentation on Pixar's booth.
Intel Partnership
Golaem Crowd 2.0 optimization and multithreading made thanks to Intel tools really helped speeding up the production process.
A lot of details are given in this nice Intel Software Adrenaline article, included in the Siggraph Edition.
You can also take a look at the presentation we did on the Intel Theatre and get more details about the results.