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title: 'Industrial Light & Magic using Vulkan Ray Tracing in movie productions'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-19843-676d0e0fa85e4f96971d0d01cbf8e1d5'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-19843-676d0e0fa85e4f96971d0d01cbf8e1d5.md'
date: '2021-03-23'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - 'Ray Tracing'
---

#  Industrial Light & Magic using Vulkan Ray Tracing in movie productions 

  March 23rd at 12:51pm

 ​Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) recently introduced Vulkan Ray Tracing into their Helios real-time renderer. StageCraft and the Helios renderer are entirely new toolsets that allow for assets of final VFX level quality to be displayed on the LED walls without requiring as much manual optimization while allowing a high degree of reconfigurability “live on the day”. ILM’s Helios real-time renderer is able to handle extreme scene complexity, with millions and millions of polygons to enable assets of final VFX level quality to be displayed on the LED walls of a film studio in real time during filming. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-midnight-skys-virtual-production-using-stagecraft/)

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