Letterbox Animation Studios announces the integration of the world’s best 2D renderer and the world’s best 3D renderer: Illustrator and Mental Ray.
This groundbreaking union creates unparalleled possibilities in the creation of artwork for feature films, TV series, architectural previsualization, and the potential to vastly improve the graphic quality of games.
A detailed Q&A on the Letterbox Animation Studios website, begins by outlining exactly what this means:
“Q: What exactly is the point of uniting Illustrator and mental ray?
A: Well let me explain what it is and what it does and then you’ll start to see some of the potential.
What we’ve done is unite the world’s best 2D renderer (Illustrator) and the world’s best 3D renderer (mental ray) and now you can use the two seamlessly.
This means that for any texture, instead of creating a bitmap version, you can use the Illustrator file directly. So you don’t have to go though the intermediate step of the bitmap. This means files sizes are massively reduced. E.g. if the Illustrator file is about 200-300k, a bitmap could end up being 200-300 meg (depending on scale / resolution), vectors can be a magnitude of order smaller.
You can zoom (dolly) in closer to the image, and it just does not get pixilated, it always stays sharp.”
To find out more about this amazing achievement, the benefits of using this technology, the industries benefited and how it was achieved, visit www.letterboxanimationstudios.com
Letterbox Animation Studios is the producer of 3D animation and gaming development software, as well as animated TV series and feature films.
