After a year-long collaboration at USC ICT, Arnold was used to render Paul Debevec's short film The Parthenon shown at SIGGRAPH 2004. Ruairi Robinson's short film Fifty Percent Grey, another early use of Arnold, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001. The first Arnold license was sold to Mikros Image in 2001 to render VFX shots for the French feature film Le Boulet. One of the first uses of Arnold was by Spanish animator Daniel Martinez Lara, who in 1999 released the animated short Pepe, creating ripples in the CG world. The inspiration and itch to work in film production was sparked by a 1998 visit to Blue Sky Studios in New York, where co-founder Carl Ludwig showed Marcos beautiful and intriguing images rendered with their pioneering Monte Carlo ray tracer.
The roots of Solid Angle date back to 1997 when founder Marcos Fajardo had the realization that a brute-force path tracing solution to the rendering equation could be optimized to produce previously unattainable imagery. His early ray tracing code was integrated into WYSIWYG, a stage lighting design tool, helping Toronto-based CAST Software secure an Engineering Emmy Award.
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