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Pixar's Drawing Tool

Posted by michael on from the monday-night-football dept.

May Kasahara writes "Millimeter has an interesting look at Pixar's Review Sketch tool, one of this company's latest pieces of proprietary software. It's cool in that it allows directors to draw on top of CG images with a Wacom Cintiq, essentially bringing elements of traditional hand-drawn animation into the 3D realm. The article discusses how the tool came about, how it was used during the production of The Incredibles, and even includes a discussion of the tool's naming."

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  1. Re:Bah. by koi88 · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Professional programs inspire the community to create free programs that have similar functionality - MS office->OpenOffice, Unix->Linux & BSD, Adobe Photoshop->GIMP, IE->Mozilla & Opera.

    I partly agree, but I have to say: OpenOffice originates from the (still existing) StarOffice, which started a long time ago as a commercial, closed-source product (heck, I remember I bought StarWriter for DOS a long time ago).
    Same with Mozilla: Mozilla didn't start as a copy of IE, its history is much more complicated (think Netscape/Mosaic... look up on Wikipedia, if you want, I'm sure they have a long article about it)

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