CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage at SIGGRAPH 2018

Wednesday, 8/15 11:30–11:50 a.m. NVIDIA Booth #801, West Hall

Bio: Adrien Herubel is a principal software engineer at Autodesk. He currently works on the Arnold renderer team and leads the GPU project. Prior to joining Autodesk, Adrien worked at Ubisoft Motion Pictures where he wrote the in-house renderer. He has over a decade of experience working in animation and visual effects (VFX) studios, specializing in both real-time and offline rendering.

Talk Description: Arnold is a high quality production renderer for visual effects in film and feature animation used by more than 300 studios worldwide on projects such as Blade Runner 2049 and Game of Thrones. Arnold was instrumental in the shift toward physically-based light transport simulation in production rendering; in fact, this role was recognized with an Academy Award in 2017. Arnold's success is rooted in its ability to efficiently produce artifact-free images of dynamic scenes with massive complexity while simplifying the user's workflow. Autodesk will be demonstrating GPU acceleration inside Arnold using NVIDIA OptiX.

Monday 8/13, NVIDIA Sponsored Room 220

Bio: Habib Zargarpour's recent role as Visual Effects Consultant on Blade Runner 2049 partnering with VFX Supervisor John Nelson allowed him to make full use of his creative and visual skills on a broad scope of work. In 2016 he worked with VFX Supervisor Scott Anderson on Series of Unfortunate Events for Netflix. Prior to that he was Partner Director of Visuals at Microsoft Studios responsible for visuals across all Publishing titles for XBox One, Windows, and Hololens. He has over 14 years of experience in visual effects for film and 14 years in the games industry. Nominated for two Academy Awards and winner of two BAFTAs in Visual Effects for his work on Twister and The Perfect Storm while at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), some of his other film projects include 2 Star Trek films, Star Wars Episode I, The Bourne Identity, Spawn, and Signs.

Habib received a Visual Effects Society (VES) Award in 2006 for Need for Speed Most Wanted. His project RYSE: Son of Rome was a launch title for XBox One and still recognized as a visual showcase for the platform. While at Microsoft he developed a Real Time Visualization system called Photon used by Jon Favreau and DP Bill Pope to film The Jungle Book and by Steven Spielberg on Ready Player One. For Blade Runner 2049 in collaboration with Wes Potter a new version of the tool was developed called Expozure, used by Denis Villeneuve to create some of the shots in the film. He is very passionate about using real time techniques in film making and applying his experience to World Building. Habib is currently Virtual Production Supervisor on Tom Hank’s Greyhound.

Talk Description: We will present an introduction to the simulation of ocean waves and vessel hydrostatics in real time. With our suite of custom tools, a team of film-makers was able to leverage GPU compute power to simulate an entire fleet of warships in real time. We will also show how these tools were integrated into the pre-visualization pipeline and used in the upcoming feature film “Greyhound”.