RNDR

About

OTOY provides GPU-based software solutions that aid in the creation and delivery of cutting-edge digital content.

OctaneRender® is the world’s first and fastest GPU-accelerated, unbiased, physically correct renderer. Octane uses the graphics card in your computer to render photo-realistic images super fast. With Octane’s parallel compute capabilities, you can create stunning works in a fraction of the time.

OTOY’s Academy Award®-winning technology is used by leading visual effects studios, artists, animators, designers, architects, and engineers, providing unprecedented creative freedom, new levels of realism, and new economics in content creation and distribution powered by the cloud.

OTOY® was founded in 2008 by Jules Urbach, Alissa Grainger and Malcolm Taylor. Since then, the company has grown to over 60 employees across four offices with headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.

About

OTOY® was founded in 2008 by Jules Urbach, Alissa Grainger and Malcolm Taylor. Since then, the company has grown to over 60 employees across four offices with headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.

About

Introduction

Our vision is to democratize GPU cloud rendering

The Render Network™ creates a much more efficient, powerful, and widely-scalable rendering network.

The Render Network™, through the use of RNDR™ tokens, is the first network to transform the power of GPU compute into a decentralized economy of connected 3D assets.

OTOY’s vision is to distribute the framework of the existing rendering service in OctaneRender® using RNDR, a digital token built on the Ethereum blockchain.

The Render Network is designed to connect users looking to perform render jobs with people who have idle GPUs to process the renders. Owners would connect their GPUs to the Render Network in order to receive and complete rendering jobs using OctaneRender. Users would send RNDR to the individual performing the render work and OTOY would receive a small percentage of RNDR for facilitating the transaction and running the Render Network.

Introduction

The Render Network, through the use of RNDR tokens, is the first network to transform the power of GPU compute into a decentralized economy of connected 3D assets.

OTOY’s vision is to distribute the framework of the existing rendering service in OctaneRender® using RNDR, a digital token built on the Ethereum blockchain.

Introduction

The Problem

Our visual world is evolving at breakneck speed.

Authoring and publishing state-of-the-art graphics is an immense challenge that is growing each day. The future demand for advanced rendering will lead to even more complexity and require higher resolution and more interactivity.

Network Scalability

Scaling GPU rendering power is too difficult with traditional render technology.There are limits on what can be done rendering locally, on a network, or even in the cloud.It’s impossible to leverage GPUs throughout the world efficiently without some sort of decentralized system that tracks and manages render jobs.

The Missing GPU Network

GPUs, the most efficient rendering hardware, are now a standard component on every phone and PC. However, the current system harbors many inefficiencies. Most developers’ GPUs remain idle when they are not rendering their own work.

A Better Use for GPU Power

Today, a large and growing amount of GPU power is used for Proof-of-Work mining. But Proof-of-Work is inherently inefficient, leveraging GPU power to solve arbitrary hash functions in order to power the network. We envision a future where GPUs are used for the work that they were designed for, eventually basing this process as the underlying protocol that will power the Render Network™.

Digital Rights Management

There is no universally accessible storage location for artists to store their work and know that it is theirs. Through the blockchain and the ledger-based storage protocol of the RNDR™ network, artists are able to store and access their designs and creations.

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How It Works

The Render Network

The Render Network™ is the first network to transform the power of GPU compute into a decentralized economy of connected 3D assets.

Please Read the RNDR User Manual for More Details

Ethereum’s widespread adoption was the key to realizing our vision. Instead of GPUs being used to only mine currencies, we use their intrinsic function to render and leverage the features of the blockchain: network, incentives and trust.

Potential Users of the Render Network

Media

Industry

Augmented Reality

Mixed Reality

Gaming

Medical

Virtual Reality

The Render Ecosystem

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The Render Ecosystem

Team

Meet the founder & our advisors

And the core team

Kalin Stoyanchev

Project Lead

Charlie Wallace

Chief Technology Officer

Phillip Gara

Strategy

Matthew McClure

Blockchain Developer

Victor Naumik

Blockchain Developer

Austin Clifton

Developer

Tim Maclean

Developer

Daniel Torres

Developer

People handling community outreach

Padi Frigg

Technical Contributor

Jules sets the strategic vision for OTOY, and is the chief architect of the company’s technology roadmap. Widely hailed as a pioneer in computer graphics, streaming and 3D rendering with over 25 years of industry experience.

He made his first game, at 18, and went on to make the web’s first 3D video game platform and licensed the software to Macromedia, Disney, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Microsoft, Hasbro and AT&T.