Construct teaser

Kevin Margo, VFX Supervisor at Blur Studio, and director of the short film Grounded, is working on a new film called Construct. The short tells a personal story through robot characters. Interestingly enough, Margo set himself the goal of producing the whole CG short using GPU rendering, that is, using rendering software that employs GPU graphics hardware acceleration to produce its images. It’s the first time someone has attempted to do this for a major production, which Margo and his team are doing using Chaos Group’s V-Ray RT renderer.

You can watch the teaser by clicking above and see Margo’s recent presentation at the GTC conference on the use of GPU rendering for his short on FullView Media. Also of note, Chaos Group, developers of V-Ray RT, have released a video showing a behind the scenes of the production of the film. The video can be found on YouTube.