Nvidia's RTX gaming tech is making digital art easier - but what is it and how can it improve your creativity?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX
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Nvidia RTX, once primarily centred around gaming, is now changing the face of a range of creative industries. By leveraging advanced ray tracing and AI, Nvidia is now turning its attention to enhancing creative applications such as V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, and Blender Cycles. As a result, RTX technology is quite simply revolutionising the way creatives, such as artists and designers, are working.

The power of Nvidia RTX has traditionally been seen in gaming with improved visual fidelity, but its capabilities now extend far beyond entertainment (such as in Star Wars Outlaws). The same tech that brought life to virtual worlds now enhances creative workflows in fields like 3D modelling, animation, video editing, and more. Indeed, you can find a complete list of digital art, graphic design, 3D modelling, rendering, and animation software accelerated for Nvidia RTX on the Nvidia blog - it's well worth reading.

Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.

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