Otoy’s RNDR brings sophisticated graphics rendering to masses via blockchain

We all love the great images and special effects in our favorite films, video games, and animated TV shows. But it’s still a pretty difficult and complex process to create these fanciful scenes that are better than real life. Hollywood studios can do it with colossal budgets, as can video game publishers with huge teams.

But Los Angeles-Based Otoy, which created software used to make special effects in Westworld and The Avengers, wants to enable everyday content creators to do it too. And so it has launched RNDR, which uses cloud, blockchain, and cryptocurrency technologies to marshal millions of unused PCs and their graphics capabilities to quickly render cool images for the everyday content creator. The goal is to take the cost, time, and labor out of the process by creating an economy for 3D assets, which could be rendered via the shared hardware, hosted in the cloud, and then sold and traded in a decentralized fashion.