DMC-FX7
ƒ/2.8
5.8 mm
1/15
100
Awesome tour of DreamWorks today… Played around with the tablet used for Shrek2 scenes.
With the march of Moore’s Law, the realism and effects get better and better. They now model multiple layers of clothing with friction and slip between layers.
And all the new movies will have simultaneous renderings of 3D versions (for the 3D glasses crowd). For the original Shrek, this conversion took quite a bit of human effort, and was ultimately not released.
Seeing the racks of HP blades rendering movies frame by frame reminded me of my PIXAR job interview 10 years ago (they used racks of Sun workstations then). PDI DreamWorks also engages all of the networked desktop PCs as a distributed server farm.
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