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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. Wonderful by Moheeheeko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because we all want them to pump out more Shrek films as fast as possible amirite?

    1. Re:Wonderful by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny

      Because we all want them to pump out more Shrek films as fast as possible amirite?

      Now I have to eat lunch, again.

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    2. Re:Wonderful by need4mospd · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe if rendering time wasn't an issue, they could focus more on plot, character development, and....ah who the fuck am I kidding. Maybe we could see more animated boobs.

    3. Re:Wonderful by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think this has the potential to make animation more like live-action film. A director woking with live actors can order more takes if he's not getting the performances he needs from his actors or the shot's composition is less than perfect. This system sounds like it might give animators the same direct feedback, allowing them to more easily compose those perfect shots,

  2. Wrist Straing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Homer: Uh, I guess. Is this episode going on the air live?
    June Bellamy: No, Homer. Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.

  3. Re:GOOD LUCK by masternerdguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maximum Friendship

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  4. 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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  5. 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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    1. Re:Which is it? by jeffeb3 · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's the difference?

  6. Old news, blender can do this already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually blender can do this in 2 ways!

    Since last Blender Conference last October, Cycles has been announced as the new render for Blender.
    This is a realtime renderer that uses Progressive Rendering and can render realtime on CPU, GPU or both!
    This can also be done for animation.

    But this is possible for quite a while, since blender also can do OpenGL rendering realtime, and you can use the BGE as a realtime viewport.
    So been there, done that, open sourced it