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ILM Now Capable of Realtime CGI

Posted by chrisd on from the ilm-has-a-raleigh-mann-too dept.

Sandman1971 writes "According to the Sydney Morning Herald, specialFX company ILM is now capable of doing realtime CGI, allowing actors and directors to see rough CGI immediately after a scene is filmed. Actors on the latest Star Wars film watch instant replays of their battles with CG characters. ILM CTO Cliff Plumer attributes this amazing leap to the increase in processing power and a migration from using Silicon Graphics RISC-Unix workstations to Intel-based Dell systems running Linux."

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  1. Re:Errm... by The_K4 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    DARK HELMET: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? COL. SANDERS: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now. DARK HELMET: What happened to then? COL. SANDERS: We passed then. DARK HELMET: When? COL. SANDERS: Just now. We're at now, now. DARK HELMET: Go back to then. COL. SANDERS: When? DARK HELMET: Now! COL. SANDERS: Now? DARK HELMET: Now! COL. SANDERS: I can't. DARK HELMET: Why? COL. SANDERS: We missed it. DARK HELMET: When? COL. SANDERS: Just now. DARK HELMET: When will then be now? COL. SANDERS: Soon.