Bunkspeed has released SHOT Pro, the professional version of Bunkspeed SHOT. This is the 3D rendering solution demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2010 and the GPU Technology Conference that demonstrated the use of the power of both CPUs and GPUs. SHOT Pro continues Bunkspeed's effort to provide the creative digital designer the ability to quickly explore various design concepts and communicate their intent with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. Bunkspeed SHOT Pro adds functionality to enrich communication, accurately simulate the real world, streamline your workflow, and scale an end user’s performance.

SHOT Pro enriches communication by introducing support for animation:
· Turntable Animation: Quickly and easily create photorealistic animations showing your model rotating 360 degrees providing a more immersive experience to your audience.
· Sun Study Animation: Quickly and easily animate the rise and fall of sunlight over time.
SHOT Pro adds functionality to automatically and accurately simulate the physical world so you don’t have to.
· Displacement Mapping: Leverage a standard 2D grayscale image to add physical depth to an object.
· Time of Day Lighting Model: Determine the impact of sunlight on your model by dictating the location and time for which the sun is to appear when lighting your scene.
· 32-bit Image Output: Output final renders to 32bit HDR format with full before/after exposure control.
SHOT Pro introduces key features to streamline a user’s workflow with real-time feedback and an intuitive interface.
· Bunkspeed Queue: Send and manage offline jobs to an organizable queue that can be started and ended at any time, providing flexibility in how you manage your own schedule.
· Camera Positioning: Determine and share a virtual camera’s position with a real world photographer to tightly match image backgrounds (backplates) with your digital models.
· Real-time Camera Post processing: Add photographic effects to your image such as reticle, vignetting, exposure, white balance, saturation etc. giving you unprecedented flexibility in achieving that final look.
· Rule of Thirds Overlay: This toggles a thirds or quarters on screen ruler to aid with composition

SHOT Pro scales performance by fully leveraging additional hardware over the network:
· Bunkspeed Boost: Connect Systems running SHOT Pro together with Boost™. Any copies of SHOT Pro installed on the same network can leverage each other’s available processing power when they are not under heavy load, providing a scalable on-demand solution.
“Hollywood gives me no time to wait. Bunkspeed Shot Pro on NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU’s is really fast. It leaves more time for me to be creative,” said Daniel Simon, Cosmic Motors lead vehicle designer for feature films Tron Legacy, Captain American, and Battleship.

SHOT Pro is an 'all-digital camera' with interactive ray-tracing and a simple and elegant workflow, empowering digital designers to bring their creations to life in minutes not hours. Unlike other typical or standard off-line 3D rendering software with hundreds of sliders, requiring endless tweaking and back/forth between the 3D setup and the resulting 2D image, Shot offers just the right amount of control allowing for total creative freedom while accurately simulating the physical world.

Pricing and Availability?Bunkspeed SHOT Pro integrated with iray rendering technology leverages NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions to enable a combination of unprecedented power, elegance and accuracy. Bunkspeed SHOT Pro is available starting at US$3,500.



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