Article published on November 30, 2009 on NOVEDGE blog. Italy is a country famous for several reasons. Among them: artistic and historical monuments, great food, fashion, music, and sports cars. Software and technology are seldom added to the list. So when you happen to meet the CEO of a successful Italian software company, the first... Continue Reading →
The New Rendering Frontier: an Interview with Chema Guerra, Co-Director of Fryrender
Jose María Guerra García is co-founder and co-director, with Pedro Osma, of Feversoft, the Spanish company that is developing Fryrender. Fryrender is a new rendering engine strictly based on light simulation (it comes as a standalone product with plug-ins for 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, LightWave, and Cinema 4D). Jose Maria's new software product is emerging from a long phase of beta testing as... Continue Reading →
An Interview with Victor Gonzalez, CEO of Next Limit Technologies (Maxwell Render)
Victor Gonzalez is the CEO of Next Limit Technologies, a Spanish company known for the the famous Maxwell Render, a sophisticated rendering software based strictly on physical equations of light transport. After a long phase of beta testing, Maxwell Render enjoyed instant success upon its recent release. In order to know more about the company and the people... Continue Reading →
My first Solidworks Rendering (1997)
This was one of my first renderings created with RenderWorks, starting from a model I made with SolidWorks. I created it at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Parma, Italy, in March 1997. At the time, I was working as a researcher for the Department and teaching a couple of courses on... Continue Reading →