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Final Fantasy At 2.5FPS

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 14, 2001 @08:17AM from the that's-a-lot-of-pixels dept.

Rikardon writes: "Adding a little fuel to the ATi-vs-NVIDIA fire started earlier today on Slashdot, NVIDIA and Square are showing a demo at SIGGRAPH of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within being rendered in 'real time' (four-tenths of a second per frame) on a Quadro-based workstation. Now that I think of it, this should also inject new life into this debate." Defender2000 points to the Yahoo article. Update: 08/14 09:30 PM by T : Original headline was wrong, said ".4FPS" but as cxreg pointed out, .4 frame per second isn't .4 seconds per frame. Sorry.

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So what? by ChristianBaekkelund · 2001-08-14 08:27 · Score: 3, Offtopic
So what if it can render fast?... That still doesn't mean things like that can be MADE fast!...The ungodly massive number of man-hours that went into:
- Modelling
- Matte painting
- Painting textures
- Lighting
- Shading
- Animating
- Writing!
- Making the sound effects
- Making the music
- Doing the voice work & lip-sync'ing
- Writing custom graphics applications for the skin, hair, etc.
- Using said applications in the afformentioned modelling/animating/texturing, etc.
So, yippee, it can render fast...too bad that has NO BEARING on the actual quality of the production (with the possible exception of the team gets to iterate on the work a little more).