'When we set out to make 'The Addams Family 2,' we wanted it to be bigger, better and more fun than the first movie. To achieve that, we needed advanced tools and technology for our artists to create the ground-breaking, beautiful visuals to accompany our story. We were so fortunate to partner with Intel on this and get our artists everything they needed to achieve the work we wanted for the movie.'
Why It Matters: For 'The Addams Family 2,'
'Battling noise in renders often creates an extreme amount of work that lands on the already burdened shoulders of effects artists and lighters,' said
Image noise introduces non-desirable elements to animation visuals, including specks, granularity, or variations in light, color and shadow, making for a less visually appealing film. Image noise also affects production time, quality and budget.
'In production, anything you can do to optimize the process is a win for movie quality. If you can do denoising and cut off the render footprint earlier, that means the rendering takes less time. This in turn gives the artists more time to iterate on improving image quality in fewer calendar days,' said Driskill.
How It Works: Intel Open Image Denoise removes noise from the imagery with its collection of machine-learning algorithms and efficient deep-learning denoising filters, which are trained to handle a wide range of samples per pixel. It distinguishes an image's 'good stuff' such as geometric shapes, textural detail and patterns, from render and pixel noise to clear away the latter.
Rendering tools used for production of 'The Addams Family 2' included:
Gaffer, an open source, node-based VFX software for 'look' development, lighting and rendering.
Autodesk Arnold, which has recently integrated Intel Open Image Denoise, and does the heavy lifting of ray tracing and rendering to deliver the elegantly styled 3D world.
Intel Open Image Denoise to denoise every frame of the movie.
By using Intel's oneAPI tools,
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