The Bakery is a computer graphics company developing innovative software solutions, designed to bring both artistry and productivity to new heights. By users, for users, we are committed to providing uncompromisingly powerful, robust and user-friendly products that maximize creativity while addressing the most demanding real world production and workflow challenges.
Bakery Relight is a relighting and rendering suite tailored for the production of 3D feature films. Our software has been designed from the get-go to hone the lighter's workflow. Instead of having a 3D program coupled with a separate renderer, we propose constant interactive visual feedback in the rendering engine itself.
Thanks to a fully multithreaded implementation of state-of-the-art rendering algorithms, combined with a unique caching mechanism of our own recipe, lighting iterations that would take minutes or even hours with a traditional approach can be performed in seconds. It is composed of three main components: An interactive lighting application. A rendering engine. A set of auxiliary tools for efficiently managing the entire lighting process: Command line tools for batch processing. Interactive tools for visualizing the data generated at each step of the rendering process. Conversion tools from 3rd party formats (image, geometry, scene description).
Flexibility, Extensibility, Portability
The rendering engine is built around an open node-based architecture for shader definitions. The pool of shaders being extensible by design, it is extremely easy to add new lights, materials or any other shading operators (e.g, ray-traced reflection or refraction, point-cloud based indirect illumination, spot light with soft shadowing, …). The engine architecture then allows for a highly customizable, yet seamless mix of these different illumination and shading models in the same scene.
