Rick Champagne

Rick Champagne leads global industry strategy and marketing for Media & Entertainment at NVIDIA. Working closely with customers and industry partners, Rick helps guide marketing and strategy for the film, TV, games, broadcast and advertising industries. With a long history of industry management for products and solutions such as HP Z Workstations, the Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya Entertainment Creation Suites, Softimage, Mudbox and Painter, Rick has been in the service of artists and other creative professionals for nearly two decades. Rick spends much of his personal time in his technological and creative pursuits. He studied graphics in college and holds an MBA.

Film School Adopts NVIDIA RTX to Deliver Real-World Production Experience for Students

From animated shorts and video games to feature-length films, students at the Vancouver Film School create over 900 productions a year. This immersion into real-world production is a big reason… Read Article

Real-Time Ray Tracing Realized: RTX Brings the Future of Graphics to Millions

Only a dream just a few years ago, real-time ray tracing has become the new reality in graphics because of NVIDIA RTX — and it’s just getting started. The world’s… Read Article

Monster Moves: How Top VFX Studios Are Remoting Film and Television Production

Among the companies around the world adjusting to remote work environments are visual effects studios. They commonly use NVIDIA Quadro-powered high-performance graphics workstations from partners like HP and Dell for… Read Article

GTC Digital: From Real-Time Virtual Production to Fully Immersive Entertainment

The future technologies of film and television are here — and it’s all powered by NVIDIA Quadro GPUs. For the first time in Academy Awards history, technologies such as AI,… Read Article

AI-Listers: Oscar-Nominated Irishman, Avengers Set Stage for AI Visual Effects

This weekend’s Academy Awards show features a twice-nominated newcomer to the Oscars: AI-powered visual effects. Two nominees in the visual effects category, The Irishman and Avengers: Endgame, used AI to… Read Article

For 12th Year Running, NVIDIA Quadro Powers Every Oscar-Nominated Film for Best Visual Effects

For the 12th consecutive year, NVIDIA Quadro GPUs have powered the stunning visuals behind every Academy Award nominee for Best Visual Effects. The red carpet will roll out for the… Read Article

Autodesk Maya and Arnold Now Shipping with RTX On

Audiences are demanding higher quality content published on ever-shorter timelines. For artists and studios tackling modern graphics workloads, this means rethinking traditional workflows. Autodesk just announced the release of Maya… Read Article

Broadcasting Live From the Future: Ray Tracing Comes to Live TV with NVIDIA RTX

Move over, Emmy awards. Real-time ray tracing just stole the spotlight in broadcast television. Riot Games used The Future Group’s Pixotope mixed-reality virtual production software to deliver the first real-time… Read Article

NVIDIA RTX and AI Help Artists Combine Creativity and Technology at THU

Artists from around the world are about to experience how technology is transforming creativity. At the annual Trojan Horse Was a Unicorn (THU) event, in Malta on Sept. 25, artists… Read Article