Bunkspeed Brings the Interactive 3D Photograph To The Cloud

The Bunkspeed Cloud Solution Enables SHOT Pro Users to Visualize and Interact with Photorealistic 3D Scenes Anywhere, Any-time With No Compromises

CARLSBAD, CALIF & SAN ANTONIO – Jan. 24, 2011 – Bunkspeed®, a leading provider of 3D rendering and animation software for the design and creative industry, today introduced the Bunkspeed® Cloud Solution at Solidworks World 2011 in San Antonio. The Bunkspeed Cloud Solution, including Bunkspeed SHOT Pro™, leverages NVIDIA® GPUs to enable to publish photorealistic scenes or 3D content to the Web for real time visualizing and interacting from anywhere in the world, on almost any device via a web browser.

“When it comes to accurately simulating the physical world – details matter,” says Philip Lunn, Bunkspeed founder and CEO. “With the introduction of the Bunkspeed Cloud Solution, we are further offering our users a way to communicate and share their creativity without sacrificing the rendering quality and speed that makes Bunkspeed technology standout.”

Running in an NVIDIA GPU-based cloud environment, the Bunkspeed Cloud solution uses the mental images’ RealityServer® 3D web application services platform to empower users in the automotive design, architectural visualization, engineering, marketing, and consumer product design fields to create and collaborate on stunningly photorealistic visualizations without having to wait for images to render on their workstation. It also allows for non-CAD decision-makers to view and review such projects, all through the web, a platform that provides hardware resources that dynamically scale based on utilization requirements

“Providing interactive and photorealistic 3D web solutions in the Cloud with our RealityServer and iray technologies is where the industry is heading,” says Randy Ochs, mental images VP Business Development and Sales, North America. “Seeing what Bunkspeed has done with Bunkspeed Cloud to deliver this seamlessly to anybody, anywhere will change the game, yet again.

About Bunkspeed SHOT Pro

SHOT Pro is the world’s first hybrid 3D rendering application that produces stunningly photorealistic images and 360-degree animation with ease. SHOT Pro empowers digital designers to turn concepts into reality with its “all digital camera” with interactive ray-tracing and intuitive interface. SHOT Pro enables users to perfectly simulate real-world lighting and materials -- including the subtle effects of indirect illumination and refraction -- in minutes rather than hours. Additionally, SHOT Pro integrated with mental image's iray® rendering technology leverages NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions to enable a combination of unprecedented power, elegance and accuracy.

SHOT Pro seamlessly integrates with Solidworks 2011 and other leading CAD applications – via a plug-in or importer – allowing users to add materials, change out lighting environments and apply various back plates to produce stunningly photorealistic results.

Demonstrations of SHOT Pro and the Bunkspeed Cloud Solution are available at the NVIDIA booth (#401) during SolidWorks World 2011.

Pricing and Availability

Bunkspeed SHOT Pro is currently available for the Windows platform for $3,495 USD. For more information or to request a trial version, visit: www.bunkspeed.com/SHOT or contact Bunkspeed at: Email Contact.

Information and pricing for Bunkspeed Cloud-based configurations are available upon request. Please contact Bunkspeed at: Email Contact.

Additional information on mental images’ products can be found at: www.mentalimages.com; additional information on NVIDIA Quadro can be found at: www.nvidia.com/quadro.

About Bunkspeed

Bunkspeed is a leading global provider of 3D rendering and animation software for the design and creative industry. Bunkspeed is a private company founded in November of 2002 with the philosophy that 3D rendering software should be easy to learn, simple to use and produce stunning photographic results. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Bunkspeed's products include Bunkspeed SHOT™, a "virtual digital camera" with interactive ray-tracing empowering anyone to quickly create photographic-quality images, Bunkspeed Move™, a "virtual movie camera" bringing products to life by quickly creating various types of animations, and Bunkspeed Drive™, a fully featured visualization application tuned for the automotive industry. Bunkspeed’s customers include Frog Design, Pininfarina, Unilever, Rubbermaid, Nike, Ford Motor Company, BMW, Honda, and Tiffany's. For more information on Bunkspeed’s products and services, visit www.bunkspeed.com.