good luck with your studies

need to learn how to do it by next tuesday to submit my concept art.

owwh
you've gotten a job on concept art?
which scope you're doing?

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NVIDIA's Quadro FX 5800 with 4GB graphics memory is 'the most powerful graphics card in history'


That's some serious boasting by NVIDIA, but this is some serious graphics horsepower. The Quadro FX 5800, already seen in NVIDIA's Quadro Plex D data cruncher, replaces the 5600 at the top of the NVIDIA heap with 240 CUDA-programmable parallel cores and the industries first card with 4GB of graphics memory. MSRP? Just $3,499 for you big spender -- pennies for the companies who can harness the power for the purposes of oil and gas exploration, 4D modeling, and graphics design.

This post has been edited by cymon: Nov 10 2008, 08:26 PM

NVIDIA Redefines Entry-level Professional Graphics for Small/Integrated Form Factors




With today’s traditional workstation model pricing, many organizations can only afford to deploy professional graphics solutions to select designers and engineers, leaving a significant portion of the workforce with sub-optimal products. This is about to change as NVIDIA Corp. announced today NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 470, the first integrated professional motherboard GPU, and NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 Low Profile (Quadro FX 370 LP), an entry-level Quadro graphics boards for small form factor systems.

Honoring NVIDIA’s commitment to tailor its Quadro professional line to the specific needs of the end user, the Quadro FX 470 and Quadro FX 370 LP GPU deliver high performance and flexibility at entry-level pricing for computer-aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) applications.

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DICE puts faith in NVIDIA PhysX technology for Mirror’s Edge to take gamers over the rooftops.


In the videogame Mirror’s Edge, DICE, an EA studio, introduces players to a new heroine named Faith. Faith belongs to a network of couriers called ‘runners’ who use acrobatic moves to transport confidential information across the cityscape of rooftops and aerial skyways to avoid being detected. To deliver this never-before-seen sense of movement and perspective, DICE has turned to NVIDIA PhysX technology to give gamers an eye-popping experience on the PC.

With the NVIDIA PhysX physics engine, the world of Mirror’s Edge comes to life with real affects of wind, weapons impact, and in-game movements. Everyday objects within the game become part of the overall experience. Cloth, flags, and banners can now impact weapons and players; ground fog interacts with the player’s footsteps; explosions fill the air with smoke and debris; and weapon impacts are enhanced with interactive particles.

On the PC, PhysX technology harnesses the power of CUDA, NVIDIA’s general-purpose, parallel-computing architecture, to handle 10-20 times more visual complexity than what’s possible without a GeForce CUDA-enabled GPU. And unlike competitors’ solutions, which do not offer hardware-scaling capabilities, only PhysX technology leverages the best of both CPU and GPU architectures to deliver the ultimate, immersive, user experience. With over 100 million CUDA-compatible GeForce 8 Series and higher GPUs shipped to date, PhysX technology has the largest installed base of general-purpose, parallel-computing processors to run on.

“If you love intense combat scenes, fast-paced chases, and sky-high adventures then Mirror’s Edge is the game for you,” said Ujesh Desai, vice president of GeForce desktop business at NVIDIA. “Gamers will appreciate the greater freedom of movement, including sliding under barriers, tumbling, wall-running, and shimmying across ledges — all within an environment that is dynamic and immersive, delivered in part by our PhysX technology”.

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the PhysX technology is embedded into latest graphic cards? or is it comes with a special GPU?(duh i hate to buy GPU again). i'm using 9800GT, am i able to get all those effects? i'm a big fans of Mirror's Edge, cant accept myself to play it without full features

how about invest into pro card?

i personally invest on nvidia quadro.
i customise all my dell precission workstation series with quadro.
they give me more power and work flow i need.

so far i have 2 nvidia quadro fx4600, 1 nvidia quadro fx3500 and 1 nvidia quadro fx470.
all of them give me the real work flow of i need.

nope, its too expensive and unaffordable for me currently, i wanna have a pc for surfing net and games, if wanna do work, might as well go studio work, can let boss see how hardwork i am summore , all i need is a machine tat ngam ngam can play latest games, den oni upgrade it when neccessary, liddat my wallet wont hurt so much...

such a hardworking...

so what you plan now for cg industry?

i'm still a student now, still doing my FYP currently, after that, might be back to my previous studios to work while waiting chances for singapore there loo... or if i lucky enough, i might wanna go to singapore and work right after graduate, hoping to step in game industry or VFX by next year, ha ha am i dreaming?

no, it is not dreaming.

so you have to start your portfolio collection.

You dont need any new GPU for it. Current drivers for Quadro and Geforce have physX drivers included and will use the GPU for processing. Only the latest, Quadro FX 4800(?) and the current top of the line geforce have build in physX processor (correct me if i am wrong). So your 9800GT is on the safe side.

Start your portfolio early, if you are interested in animation, start practicing on the rigging and expression setups..if you are into modeling, start practicing your modeling in nearly all fields eg. hard modeling, organic.. etc..make sure you know the fastest way to deal with tedious UV mapping. IF you are in to post production, start understanding matte painting and so on..

Split your time between your assignments and personal projects, sacrifice abit of your holidays instead of online games addiction or hanging out with friends, start on your portfolio.

Just like what cymon says but what i commented above is what i did 3 years back.

many many thx sifu! ha ha i admit i do play games and hanging around with friends, well, time for me to pack up my attitude and move forward loo...

OK cymon...i think i reply u here coz its more on topic hehe.

Surely i'll join if theres anything. Our cg society needs to put our heads together really and do something. Im sure there are a group or two who had pioneered it. Some say the govt aint supportive enough + our media platform (the mainstream one the least) is not a good place to grow talent coz of stuff like racial/religious/politics/ISA/royalties bla bla bla sensitivities or wuteva.

And they wonder why arent we developing.

Siggraph S'pore was slow i heard but i was talking abt a smaller one organised by CGtalk s'porean member..here

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php...82&page=6&pp=15

Neah...nothing big of anything to shout abt . Working in archi firm pose less and less challenges nowadays and getting too predictable.

Are u joining CGChallenge Steampunk!? I got some nifty ideas but too leadbutted to do anything abt it....me and gaming

so i count you in for my project.

yup, you were right. our govt aint that much supportive compare oversea, maybe they thought this industry won't grow or solid enough.
that why most of the pro already export their talent out of country.

that will be good if we have small scale of cg group gathering.
the problem is singapore is small country compare to malaysia so the gathering won't be much trouble.
lot of cg ppl in malaysia is scatter around and travel/hospitality will be an issue.

about CGChallenge Steampunk, i maybe will join once i finish my current projects.
the prize look great but most of all is the fun.
so have you prepare anything real cool for this challenge?
mind to share?

oh, come on. life goes on.
i know it is pretty boring at archi firm sometime but i m sure you can make something out of there.
any ideas going into something new?

This post has been edited by cymon: Dec 15 2008, 02:50 PM

Maybe we can start with Klang Valley first.

I dunno...too many ideas floating around haplessly . Of course i'll join in for da fun of it. Winning it? i dont think so. But Micheal Zse is doing very well there.

Yeah...but it is restricted to do anything new or try something radical coz it is bound to the clients needs and most of them have a really typical-archi-render type which i have grown to be tired of.

Not that im any good at it but i just need to try something new before i grow old-er (coz im old ady )

I would love to try concept art for movies or games. Enough office towers, condos or mix devs *puke prefusely*

you remind me too..
i m 30++ , but i m still

are you really seriously want to get involve at concept art for movies/games?
i have something would like to share with you.. but do you have time for it?

This post has been edited by cymon: Dec 15 2008, 04:11 PM

bring it on!!!

but noob warning....my creative muscles are not trained in this kinna field. So extreme patience is required.