REAC is the premier venue to discuss the practice and state of the art of crafting real-time 3d rendering engines. It is an independent, zero-budget, no-sponsor virtual conference, born as a REACtion to the conferences we are used to attend.
Organized by a small team of industry professionals who are passionate about our community, it punches above its weight by presenting each year insights from the top development studios and new ideas from emerging talent.

News:

• It's a wrap! REAC 2024 took place on June 3rd/4th, online. Thanks to the thousands of people who registered for the event!
• Videos have been uploaded to our youtube channel.
• NEW! Presentation slides are up! Please refer to the 2024 page for all the details.

Mission Statement:

We aim to provide an open and inclusive venue to discuss the “behind the scenes” aspects of rendering that are often key to the success of a product (game, platform, movie…) and organisation.

We use the term “architecture” to encompass all of the reasoning that leads to the design of a Rendering Engine, from the motivation behind choices made to the code that draws the final image on screen.

For example:

• How are the choices behind the technology linked to the product or organisational goals?
• Do you share code between projects or build bespoke solutions?
• Are custom tools and workflows prioritized, or those following industry standards?
• Do you prioritize workflows in favor of creativity, iteration time or run-time performance?
• How do art and code collaborate together?
• Which battles do you choose to fight, given the resources available?
• Practitioners in the field know that these and other similar questions are often more important, and more influential on the end product, than strict reasoning around image quality or performance.

Mastery of these aspects is typically relegated to hard won experience of people who had the (mis)fortune of living through many projects.

Our mission is to provide space for this knowledge to be shared in public.

Program Committee:

• Steve McAuley, Technical Director, Sony Santa Monica Studio
• Angelo Pesce, Sr.Technical Director, Digital Matter @ Roblox
• Natalya Tatarchuk, CTO, Activision Publishing
• Michael Vance, Fellow Software Engineer, Activision Publishing