The secret details behind Beeple's creation of NFT, how RNDR helps crypto art and Metaverse
The collision of technology and art has made NFT (non-homogeneous token) popular and moved to the center of the encryption stage. What followed was that various applications gradually accelerated, large companies or well-known IPs successively tested the water, and various capitals rushed in. Although the recent NFT boom seems to have cooled down, the imagination that it may carry in the future continues to spread.
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Jules Urbach
Encrypted art is becoming popular, and senior players enter the venue to help render their works
As a bridge connecting the real and virtual worlds, new use cases for NFT are emerging, and the market size is growing rapidly, while encrypted art has pushed the NFT story to a climax in high-priced auctions. As of June 25, the current total value of encrypted art has exceeded 600 million US dollars. According to data from NonFungible, in the first quarter of this year alone, art NFTs accounted for half of the entire market, with a share as high as 43%.
Unlike traditional artworks, digital artworks mostly involve computer-generated imagery (CGI), and rendering is a necessary step for computers to finally generate images and give life to works according to the models and parameters set by the creator. In the process of shuttling from reality to the virtual world, the RNDR rendering network, which leads the trend of encrypted art, is becoming the artist's secret weapon.
In the RNDR rendering network, artists only need to upload files and set task parameters through a simple interface, and then they can call the computing power on thousands of P2P nodes, which is faster and lower than cloud rendering farms. The price to complete the rendering. Afterwards, the artist can generate the rendered work as an NFT of the ERC-721 standard.
Although there are many rendering tools on the market, achieving photorealistic rendering also means paying high costs and taking a long time. For example, the production cost of the movie "Spider-Man 3" reached 258 million US dollars, of which the special effects cost more than 155 million US dollars; the production cost of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" was 342 million US dollars, and the special effects cost as high as 200 million US dollars. It can be said that "every frame of the picture is roaring with high funds".
For most artists, such a high cost is undoubtedly an invisible threshold for them to display their talents. RNDR integrates the OctaneRender renderer of the parent company OTOY, an authoritative cloud rendering company in the United States, to provide artists with unparalleled rendering quality and speed. Octane Render is the world's first and fastest GPU-accelerated unbiased physically correct renderer, widely used by leading visual effects studios, artists, animators, designers, architects and developers , has been used in many well-known film and television works such as "Odaily Wars", "Western World", and "The Crown".
At the same time, by distributing GPU rendering tasks to tens of thousands of P2P nodes, RNDR allows creators to easily obtain hardware capabilities comparable to Hollywood studios and achieve rendering at a lower cost, and the nodes participating in rendering can also Receive RNDR token rewards. These tokens can not only be withdrawn to the exchange for cashing, but also can be used for works rendering, software service purchase and other related functions, including staking tokens to give artists a higher priority in rendering tasks.
Jules Urbach said in an interview that compared with the efficiency that can be stably obtained on centralized public GPU cloud services, the efficiency of RNDR decentralized rendering is 10 times that of the former. For users who value cost, RNDR also provides a third-tier service at a lower price, which is 10 times lower than centralized cloud services. Of course, these are just the tip of the ice. In the future, the RNDR rendering network hopes to increase the rendering efficiency by another order of magnitude, so that it has greater advantages than the existing traditional methods.
RNDR creator platform (https://account.otoy.com/) interface (preview and confirm rendered frames)
Not only that, in the past, artists often faced the problem of piracy and infringement, and it was very difficult to trace and prove. Even in the current NFT market, there are many chaos of using copies for casting, and the blockchain-based RNDR can provide artists with The in-depth verification that other networks or platforms cannot provide not only includes the casting of NFTs, but also includes the entire rendering process in the creation of works. This includes the original 3D files in the scene graph uploaded by the artist to RNDR, the actual rendering work (that is, the sampling function), and the metadata of the rendering task. Creation leaves room.
In addition to providing more powerful and low-cost rendering capabilities, the RNDR rendering network can also allow NFT creation to fly into the homes of ordinary people. On the one hand, for the general public, cryptocurrency still has a high threshold, and artists can purchase RNDR credits launched by the RNDR rendering network through PayPal or Stripe, and then render their works; on the other hand, although there are currently many NFTs such as MakersPlace and SuperRare All platforms support the creation of NFT, but the high fees and congested network brought by Ethereum have greatly affected the user experience. By implementing the expansion solution Polygon, RNDR can greatly reduce transaction costs and time, and greatly reduce the environmental impact of interacting with the Ethereum ecosystem.
"We are studying compatibility with more public chains or DApps, including Decentraland, BAT, Algorand and many other projects." Jules Urbach revealed that next year, the RNDR rendering network will also cooperate with NFT platforms, creators and virtual worlds such as Decentraland , introducing a new generation of services and NFTs throughout the blockchain ecosystem.
It is worth mentioning that the RNDR rendering network also introduces a market for buying and selling other 3D content and services, as well as an SDK (software development kit), allowing third parties to develop their own software APP and modules on RNDR.
That is to say, RNDR not only lowers the creation threshold for artists, makes powerful rendering capabilities "at your fingertips", but also protects the personal rights and interests of creators, and will provide many one-stop creation and trading services. However, Jules Urbach also said that network expansion and operational issues are still not a small threshold.
When encrypted art is popular, the RNDR rendering network is becoming the base for NFT creation.
Will work with Beeple to develop a new generation of holographic NFT
With its powerful functions and better user experience, the RNDR rendering network has attracted more and more encrypted artists to join in this wave of NFT craze.
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Beeple：《The First 5000 Days》
"Beeple has been using our OctaneRender software for nearly 10 years, and has used Octane for most of his daily creations for the past 8 years. With OctaneRender, Beeple has changed the social media landscape and pioneered digital art." The 'Everyday' movement has changed the way creators display their business and laid the foundation for the current NFT movement. Therefore, Beeple is the best candidate for cooperation with the RNDR rendering network. As a consultant for the RNDR rendering network, we will put Beeple's life works on Link to the RNDR rendering network archives, and all are recorded on RNDR and tokenized. At the same time, we will also cooperate with Beeple to launch a new generation of NFT, which will use our holographic rendering and playback products, and introduce them in the RNDR block for the first time The fully holographic NFT on the chain will make Beeple's works move from 2D and 3D display to a new generation of holographic display. These new generation of holographic NFT will be an important turning point for the large-scale application of NFT." Jules Urbach said.
As Jules Urbach said, RNDR will cooperate with Beeple to develop the first blockchain NFT that can be fully immersively displayed on a holographic display or mobile AR. At the same time, Beeple will also put his life's work on the RNDR chain to form his personal work dynamic profile. These works will be subject to in-depth copyright verification on the RNDR blockchain network, and can be recombined and created again.
In addition, the RNDR rendering network also announced its cooperation with Marvel and DC legendary illustrator Alex Ross, and will also establish an RNDR archive containing his life's work for him, and release it as a unique RNDR NFT. This NFT will contain rich media content from hand-drawn sketches to 3D presentations and virtual reality presentations, and will also be the first superhero-themed NFT released by Alex Ross.
Although NFT has been out of the circle, it is still a niche market compared to the entire cryptocurrency field and even the traditional field. In order to attract more creators to participate and further promote the development of NFT, ecologically, the RNDR rendering network is exploring the integration with some large companies, including studios and large media companies, which are expected to bring them into the blockchain and NFT field.
In terms of tools, in addition to OctaneRender, Jules Urbach revealed to PANews that the RNDR rendering network will also launch a multi-renderer plan, introduce third-party renderers such as Arnold Render, and introduce OTOY through the RDNR software development kit (SDK) Real-time rendering tools, including EmberGenFX real-time simulation products and real-time spectral unbiased ray tracing engine Brigade Engine. The former can help RNDR reach more large-scale Hollywood studios in the field of visual effects, and the latter can help it reach billions of game developers.
From this point of view, the RNDR rendering network, which has captured the hearts of popular encryption art leaders, is helping NFT move to a larger stage.
Metaverse is still in its early stages, and rendering will become a core requirement
"This is the 'Oasis' world, where the only limit is your own imagination."
In the movie "Ready Player One", after the male protagonist wears a VR device, he instantly enters a virtual game world "Oasis" that is born out of the real world, parallel to the real world, and always online. The "oasis" depicted by director Steven Spielberg is also an important display of the Metaverse (Metaverse), which is a popular concept this year.
In recent months, Metaverse, a concept full of "sci-fi sense", has been hotly discussed in the technology and VC circles. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that this concept will subvert human society. Google co-founder Sergey Brin Thinking that it is about to happen, major companies such as Tencent and Byte are recruiting troops to seize the track. 2021 seems to be the first year of Metaverse.
NFTs are considered the most logical route to the Metaverse, and the combination of the two is showing great potential. According to data from Nonfungible.com, as of June 25, the current monthly transaction volume of the overall NFT market exceeded US$56 million, of which Metaverse's monthly transaction volume reached US$9.6 million, accounting for 17.1% of the market share.
"Although Metaverse is a hot word this year, since its launch in 2017, this concept has been integrated into the design of the RNDR rendering network. The concept is just hype. On the contrary, Metaverse at this stage is just the tip of the iceberg. We hope to ensure that Metaverse is an open and decentralized world, and no company or organization should monopolize it.” Concept, Jules Urbach thinks.
While having a chemical reaction with NFT, the rendering industry is also an important infrastructure industry of Metaverse. From the perspective of the RNDR rendering network, it has a great "useful place" in the field of Metaverse.
Regarding the future layout of Metaverse, Jules Urbach told PANews, "As stated in the vision of the RNDR rendering network, we hope to build a decentralized economy around interconnected 3D content. Therefore, the RNDR rendering network is committed to building openness in the 3D ecosystem." The standards and interoperability of RNDR allow people to explore the metaverse without friction, instead of having many isolated platforms and networks like the current network. For this goal, the RNDR rendering network mainly uses ITMF (Immersive Technology Media Format ) standard to contribute our ORBX scene graph format and use it to serve a new generation of NFT services. In our opinion, ORBX scene graph can help NFT move from simple static objects in JPEG and MOV files to fully dynamic works in AR and VR .Only with fully portable, tokenized scene graph data will we be able to achieve a fully immersive Metaverse.”
In the view of the RNDR rendering network, holographic and AR media will serve as a bridge between the physical world and the decentralized Metaverse, so they are actively developing all the features that will drive this new generation of media, including allowing people to cast the first fully holographic and AR media. Immersive NFT. Rendering is the core of Metaverse. RNDR Rendering Network believes that by popularizing GPU rendering and introducing more and more real-time rendering tools through RNDR SDK, a wider range of creators will be able to participate in Metaverse.
