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Intel and DreamWorks Working On Rendering Animation In Real-Time

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-your-grandma's-cartoons dept.

PolygamousRanchKid writes "This week while speaking at the Techonomy conference, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told audience members that they'd formulated the solution for real-time rendering of animation for video. Katzenberg told the audience that they'd been working hand-in-hand with Intel in order to rewrite their software to take advantage of scalable multi-core processors, this allowing them to achieve advances that will, for lack of a better term, revolutionize the animation process."

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  1. Re:Rotoscope? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, think more along the idea of Rango - an animated film that used human actors as guides for the animators in terms of facial expressions and posing. Took quite a while to do.

    Hopefully this will bring some creativity to the genre as opposed to simply cranking out more Shrek reruns.

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  2. Which is it? by Ibiwan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One link says 50-70 times faster, and the other says 50-70 percent faster.

    Does anyone actually feel like watching the video to see what the claim is?

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