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Nicolas Lopez
@nicolas-lopez.bsky.social
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Technical Architect and GPU Plumber on Assassin's Creed & Anvil Engine at Ubisoft MTL. I speak for myself.
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Jun 28
I recently spoke with GameSpot about global illumination and how we approached it in #AssassinsCreedShadows

www.gamespot.com/articles/the...
The Hidden Tech That Makes Assassin's Creed Shadows Feel More Alive (And Not Require 2TB)
An Assassin's Creed developer sheds some light on how new, often hidden technology, is making games better for developers and gamers alike.
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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 7d
"Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels", includes a great intro to GPU architecture and PTX/SASS: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul
Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels - Aleksa Gordić
From GPU architecture and PTX/SASS to warp-tiling and deep asynchronous tensor core pipelines.
www.aleksagordic.com
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · 8d
Ray tracing The World of #AssassinsCreedShadows (Siggraph 2025) available on YouTube youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...
RAY TRACING THE WORLD OF ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS (Advances in Real-Time Rendering SIGGRAPH 2025)
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
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Adam Sawicki @asawicki.info · 15d
This new video by Timothy Lottes will be the craziest way of programming you've seen for a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrL7...
Fixing C
YouTube video by Neokineogfx
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Sep 1
I had 3 of those. They all failed me the same way.
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Aug 30
Idk, but 40 looks closer to 60 than to 30 to me and this is wild
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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from @idsoftware.bsky.social
are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides for "Real-Time Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid ReSTIR-Path-Tracing and Diffusion” talk by Tanki Zhang from NVIDIA are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides for "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen are now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances talks slides sharing: "Strand-based hair and fur rendering in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from Machine games is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · Aug 21
Intuitive Guide to Convolution betterexplained.com/articles/int...
Intuitive Guide to Convolution – BetterExplained
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Jakub Boksansky @boksajak.bsky.social · Aug 18
Our "Neural Visibility Cache" paper has been published in JCGT! Here is a link: www.jcgt.org/published/00...
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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 9
As the date for the 20th anniversary of Advances is coming, I realized some content was missing.
Posted 2007 and 2008 courses online - check them out!

advances.realtimerendering.com
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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · Aug 16
SIGGRAPH 2025 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2025/08/15/s.... I'll be adding more soon. Let me know if I'm missing anything.
SIGGRAPH 2025 Links
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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · Aug 15
An Introduction to Neural Shading, Siggraph 2025 course presentation slides dl.acm.org/doi/suppl/10... and materials github.com/shader-slang...
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Aug 14
Great Siggraph 2025. Tons of good talks. #AssassinsCreedShadows of course :), Gran Turismo 7, Activision, Neural Shading and Workgraph courses. Great stuff. And a lot of content is already online. It’s great to see so much sharing. #SIGGRAPH2025
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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · Aug 14
Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
blog.selfshadow.com
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Aug 13
Great talk from the team! Congrats!
#AssassinsCreed #Anvil #Ubisoft
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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 12
Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from @ubisoft.com are sharing their lessons about Ray Tracing the World of Assassin's Creed Shadows in ACM SIGGRAPH 2025’s Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games
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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · Aug 10
Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
blog.selfshadow.com
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Aug 10
#Siggraph Work graph course is already online coburggraphicslab.github.io/workgraphs/
GPU Work Graphs Course
coburggraphicslab.github.io
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AMD GPUOpen @gpuopen.bsky.social · Aug 8
Join us at #SIGGRAPH2025 to attend our exciting courses and presentations, including:

✨GPU Work Graphs on Sunday, Aug 10
✨Demystifying Noise: Role of Randomness in Generative AI on Wednesday, Aug 13

📅 See our schedule: s2025.conference-schedule.org/organization...
Organization - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Aug 8
Congrats! Exciting news!
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Jul 22
I’ll be attending Siggraph this year. If you wish to meet and discuss graphics, hit me up!

Moreover the Anvil team will be giving a talk at the Advances in Real Time Graphics Course!
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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Jul 10
Blog post about lossless float image compression (EXR, HTJ2K, JPEG-XL, mesh optimizer): aras-p.info/blog/2025/07...
Lossless Float Image Compression · Aras' website
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Jul 3
Our talk “Anvil Rendering Architecture” is up on YouTube, including Q&A!
youtu.be/CcYq18bkvyU?...
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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · Jun 30
RenderMan XPU: A Hybrid CPU+GPU Renderer for Interactive and Final-frame Rendering

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