Today, Chaos launches Chaos Arena, a new tool that saves Hollywood millions of dollars by removing the biggest costs of virtual production. With Arena, artists can bypass game engines completely, using their normal pipeline to put ray-traced 3D content on LED walls in a matter of minutes.
Virtual production has been transformative, but the current process is full of crashes and rebuilds that can cost studios thousands of dollars per minute, said Christopher Nichols, Director of Special Projects at the Chaos Innovation Lab. Arena will not only let artists use the same assets from pre to post, but adds in a level of real-time path tracing and stability that wasn't possible before today. This is exactly what Hollywood needs to rein in budgets and kick off the next big wave of independent filmmaking.
Arena was designed to help studios quickly move their 3D scenes from popular tools like Maya, Houdini, Blender and 3ds Max onto LED screens, without a game engine. Artists simply build their assets, bring a V-Ray scene file into Chaos Arena and they are ready to start their virtual shoots. Chaos is also working on USD and MaterialX support, so artists can bring in any assets or shaders they want, even if they originated outside of the Chaos ecosystem. Artists can already use millions of existing assets from TurboSquid, Evermotion and KitBash though.
Unlike game engines, Arena will deliver fully path-traced quality renders in real-time, accurately capturing lighting and seamlessly blending virtual environments with physical sets. Because its results are fully path traced, Arena can handle an almost limitless amount of geometry. Chaos recently experienced this while working on the short Ray Tracing FTW, which saw the team bring 2.4 trillion polygons to the screen for three days straight, without a single crash.
Arena is powered by Chaos Vantage, one of the first path tracers to support NVIDIA's DLSS 4 ray reconstruction/upscaling technology, a suite of neural rendering tools designed to boost FPS and image quality. By implementing DLSS 4's new denoiser algorithm built on a new AI transformer model users can enjoy a noticeable improvement in the visual fidelity of wires, hairs and interior scenes without upgrading their current RTX cards. This boost ensures that even after denoising and/or upscaling, users will see perfect anti-aliasing of objects and textures as fine as 1 to 2 pixels.
Virtual production is reaping the benefits of the latest wave of technological advancement, said James Blevins, co-founder of MESH and former post-production supervisor of The Mandalorian. Arena's utilisation of DLSS 4 has given me and my productions the opportunity to get great environmental work to the wall as quickly as possible. It really feels like a tool that's enabling the art department.
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Today, Chaos launches Chaos Arena, a new tool that saves Hollywood millions of dollars by removing the biggest costs of virtual production. With Arena, artists can bypass game engines completely, using their normal pipeline to put ray-traced 3D content on LED walls in a matter of minutes.
