Focusing on creativity rather than technical troubleshooting
Being a hands-on independent artist, Rafi's creative vision begins with a sketch with the pencil on paper. Rafi mentions how he enjoys working from his drawing table where he starts by sketching different characters, worlds and story outlines before moving into the digital realm where he then brings these characters and scenes together inside the virtual reality (VR).
To bring these characters to life, he requires equipment that he can smoothly run all the different applications he needs to turn his 2D sketches into the 3D digital space. His work comes truly alive when he moves into Unreal Engine and NVIDIA Omniverse where he ties in lots of different software in his pipeline. Every piece of equipment needs to not only be compatible but also powerful enough to run all the multiple applications simultaneously to work in real-time.
“It makes it really simple for me as a creator to just move back and forth between these applications in real time without having to worry about exporting manually or relinking stuff; it just sort of all speaks together quite nicely,” he comments.