Solid Angle

Solid Angle (www.solidangle.com) is the technology company behind the Arnold rendering software, with offices in Madrid and London and customers throughout the world including Framestore, Industrial Light and Magic, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rodeo FX, Luma Pictures, Image Engine, The Moving Picture Company, Digic Pictures, The Mill and Psyop. Arnol... d was designed from the ground up to efficiently process the complex geometric datasets required for feature-length CGI animation and big-budget visual effects, while at the same time simplifying the pipeline, reducing the number of passes, minimizing storage requirements and greatly enhancing interactivity for lighting artists. It achieves this by incorporating modern, CPU-based ray tracing and physically-based shading techniques. Arnold has been used to create unique images in many feature films including Marvel's "The Avengers," "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Thor," "X-Men: First Class," "Red Tails," "Alice in Wonderland," "Hotel Transylvania," "The Smurfs," "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and "Monster House." Marcos Fajardo is the founder of Solid Angle and lead architect of Arnold. The software was developed prior to and during his three-year sabbatical at Sony Pictures Imageworks, and is now available as a standalone renderer, as a C++ API and as a set of plug-ins for leading 3D applications such as Maya, Softimage and Katana on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.Read More