A great interview with RNDR advisor Beeple done by Sriram Krishnan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk7MXQr1k50

His mindset when asked about his future after the 69 million art sale on Christie's:

"I honestly look at it more like a tech company. Especially at that level of money, to me that's an investment. I wanna see them to get a return on that investment. I wanna see it go up. I really look at this like I'm gonna take that money and use it to do more ambitious more resource intensive projects that I couldn't do before."

#RNDR CEO Jules Urbach spoke to Fast Company about helping Hollywood navigate the #NFT universe.

OTOY, in many ways, sits at the nexus of the NFT explosion. The company serves as an Adobe-like software provider for NFT creators.

Among its board members are director J.J. Abrams; former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; former Lucasfilm CTO Richard Kerris; Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple); and Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, whom Urbach says he talks to “every day about where the space is headed.”

Urbach also talks to Emanuel in more specific terms. He says OTOY’s collaboration with Endeavor “is to take everything that they touch . . . and provide digital representation of that. For example, we scan actors or athletes. That could become an NFT. Similarly, for UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), which Endeavor owns, we’re in discussions about providing a 3D pipeline blockchain for that.”

Beyond an #NFT, what happens when an artist like Beeple might take it, with rights attached, and use it, do something with it, and create a royalty flow?

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Apple loves OTOY!

Watch the World Wide Developer Conference 2021 where Apple was showcasing the all-new professional GPU renderer Octane X from OTOY.

💻 bit.ly/OTOY-WWDC21

OTOY is proud to offer Octane X on the Mac App Store - bringing it to millions of macOS users - available for free and with support for distributed rendering on $RNDR!

🔥 The iPad version for Octane X is currently being tested!

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⚠️ Spoiler ⚠️ In the interview #RNDR advisor Beeple says he's not even remotely done and looking for ways to use these resources to do BIGGER and more ambitious projects...

"and obviously, working with @RenderToken is a huge piece of that!" 🚀🚀🚀

On the Decrypt Daily podcast Matthew Diemer had a chat with artist Beeple and RNDR CEO Jules Urbach which were talking about the future of digital art and #NFT's with Render Token.

🎙 soundcloud.com/user-792539118-188863837/june-16-a-chat-w-beeple-rndr
🎙 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/june-16-a-chat-w-beeple-rndr/id1520762610
🎙 open.spotify.com/episode/0zaVvNyQ92YhyyRPIvsKcQ

Decrypt article: https://decrypt.co/73756/beeple-interview-69m-ethereum-nft-sale

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RNDR is coming to Apple‘s iPad!

Octane X is already available free of charge for macOS. The first videos have now surfaced on Twitter showing successful tests on iPad Pro's running on M1 Apple Silicon.

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Join us on Jul 8th at 14:00 UTC+8, we will talk about infrastructures of the NFT ecosystem

The Big Shots Show by Bitalk News Live with

Jules Urbach from
Render Token

Amie from
Flow Blockchain

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Hot off the press. RNDR Newsletter July 2021 is out!

🔥 Polygon Network L2 migration completed!!
🔥 RNDR coming to Apple's iPad
🔥 Jules Urbach and Beeple on Decrypt Daily podcast
🔥 RNDR in Fast Company article
🔥 New RNDR Creator 🎨 spotlight campaign

Want to be featured as a RNDR Creator? Fill out this form to let us know you’re interested:
https://bit.ly/RNDR-Spotlight

Read more in our archive:
http://bit.ly/RNDR-Newsletter

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We are honored to have RNDR and OTOY to be part of this exciting vanguard of fine art and digital art on Frieze.

To launch Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition with the brand new digital art section, Frieze Director of Americas and Content Rebecca Ann Siegel talked to RNDR CEO Jules Urbach.

Watch the video:
https://www.frieze.com/video/watch-exclusive-preview-frieze-viewing-room-los-angeles-edition

Read the article:
https://www.frieze.com/article/what-expect-frieze-viewing-room-los-angeles-edition

All of the NFT's for Frieze are minted and sold using new RNDR Network NFT features and tools coming online later this year for all RNDR artists, creators, publishers, marketplaces and collectors to use themselves. RNDR leverages Layer 2 technology to reduce carbon emissions.

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RNDR's Jules Urbach was speaking as part of an Financial Times x Frieze Weekend panel on the future of digital art and eco friendly NFT's.

Financial Times x Frieze

Is it the art world's responsibility to be eco-friendly?

Thursday, July 29 at 11am PST | 2pm EST | 7pm BST

Join us for a free panel moderated by Financial Times’ editor, Jemima Kelly, focusing on the art world and its ecological impact.

Panelists:

- Jules Urbach, Founder and CEO, OTOY and RNDR
- Haley Mellin, Artist and Founder, Art to Acres
- Klaus Biesenbach, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles
- Victoria Siddall, Board Director, Frieze

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https://vimeo.com/580913503

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Essential read by Matthew Ball, Managing Partner of Ball Metaverse Research Partners which launched the Metaverse ETF (NYSE:META) last month.

"The availability and development of computing power will constrain and define the Metaverse."

"OTOY hit on the idea of tapping a network of idle GPUs by creating the Ethereum-based RNDR network and [Render] Token."

Read the essay:
http://matthewball.vc/all/computemetaverse

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'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry's life, legacy and creative work will be memorialized by the #RNDR Network for future generations to use on the blockchain.

🖖♾ https://home.otoy.com/roddenberryarchive

Using RNDR, the Roddenberry Archive will capture deep 3D asset metadata from show original assets, blueprints and models.

"What goes into the RNDR archive is a special NFT that is a zero edition - it’s never ever for sale, it’s a root NFT intrinsic to the creator or artist’s work or concept or sourced material (ideally in a way we can render on demand to produce a viewable asset) - using this, Beeple can link any past or future NFT to the root version in his archive and can make secondary or tertiary monetization by controlling what the RNDR archive version grants to NFTs based in that work or IP." - Jules Urbach

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https://roddenberry.x.io

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RNDR is coming to Apple‘s iPad - Part II

https://youtu.be/Akpv_ziwPJg

Iconic artist Mike “Beeple” Winklemann takes the USS Enterprise for a spin on M1 iPad! Octane X is already available free of charge for Apple's macOS. The iPad version is currently being tested as seen in this video with Beeple.

Beeple wrote art history this year with the first purely digital artwork NFT ever offered at auction house Christie's Inc. The auction closed with a bid of over $69 million, making him the third-most-valuable living artist. He is joining OTOY's Roddenberry Archive project as a creative consultant, and, alongside legendary Marvel and DC Comics star illustrator Alex Ross, will help commemorate the Roddenberry Archive and cross-link it to both the Alex Ross and Beeple RNDR Archives announced earlier this year.

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The family foundation for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is launching "Boldly Go” which empowers anyone in the world to contribute their own art and concepts for a better tomorrow.

In partnership with Paramount+ satellite company Planet and Academy Award-winning technology company OTOY, the campaign (“Boldly Go”) is part of the celebration of the legacy of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in what would have been his centennial year.

The Foundation will work with OTOY and renowned digital artists to combine submissions into a piece of artwork that will be made available to the public and auctioned to generate funds for nonprofits—ensuring the public’s Star Trek-inspired hopes for the future translate into real-world impact.

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Crypto Conversation podcast Andy Pickering is with Jules Urbach CEO OTOY and RNDR.

Star Trekking - Jules Urbach is the Elon Musk of Rendering

Why you should listen:
RNDR, whose partners include Amazon, Google, Apple and HBO, developed a cutting-edge platform based on underlying OTOY technology that allows individuals to create graphics at the same level as Hollywood studios. RNDR is revolutionizing visual effects by using the cloud to democratize GPUs and other rendering resources, and also seeks to provide energy-efficient solutions for creating NFTs.

Jules' best friend from childhood is Rod Roddenberry. Jules is working on a new digital archive of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s legacy.

The Roddenberry Archive will feature the flagship Star Trek series, original films, and spinoffs in a variety of formats including digital and holographic renderings, documents, images, models, and blueprints.

The archive will capture deep 3D asset metadata from assets, images, blueprints, and models using RNDR, OTOY's blockchain GPU computing network. In order to capture original studio and physical assets at the highest level of photographic fidelity, the archive will leverage OTOY's LightStage Academy-Award-winning facial scanning service, generating the first comprehensive lighting and reflectance data set for future archival use. Iconic artist Mike "Beeple" Winklemann is joining the Roddenberry Archive project as a creative consultant, and, alongside legendary painter and illustrator Alex Ross, will help commemorate the Roddenberry Archive and cross-link it to both the Alex Ross and Beeple RNDR Archives.

🎙 bravenewcoin.com/insights/podcasts/star-trekking-jules-urbach-is-the-elon-musk-of-rendering

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RNDR Creator Spotlight ➡️ Joaquin Vismarax

The RNDR Creator Spotlight has returned, with an all new feature on one of Argentina’s most exciting NFT creators and digital artists: Joaquin Vismarax! 🙌

Read about Joaquin’s path, from remixing Lego sets to his first forays in digital media creating music videos for some of Argentina’s most popular rap and trap artists.

With GPU prices 2x-3x higher in Argentina than the US, Joaquin saw RNDR as a way around the technical and economic limitations of his country. Emerging onto the scene with CRYPTOARG, Joaquin has been making waves on NFT platforms like NiftyGateway and SuperRare, and is quickly becoming a sought after creator and genre-bending artist.

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https://medium.com/render-token/rndr-creator-spotlight-joaquin-vismarax-4900264cc515

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RNDR & OTOY CEO Jules Urbach was just on screen at the Apple keynote!

#Apple #AppleEvent #M1Max #M1Pro #OctaneRender #OTOY #JulesUrbach

The starship Enterprise is a large dataset from the Roddenberry archive and has been rendering on $RNDR 🚀

#RNDRtheMetaverse

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