Actually the fourth one is in production (2 Toy Story movies and A Bugs Life), called Monsters Inc. Probably the fifth one may be in development. They also got a new short out called "For the Birds"
Not at all, because the film will be shown theatrically first.
It's not about the medium (celuloid or digital) or the delivery method (beamed or transmitted or delivering the rolls by FedEx), it's just about when the films are shown first.
I think even previous rules said that film had to be shown for at least a week in any theatre in LA to be eligible. That's all. Eventually someone will have a small thatre to project net films there first cheaply for a week (maybe some festival) and then they can be widely distributed on the Net. Problem solved.
That was Jessica Lange in the movie Blue Sky, also with Tommy Lee Jones. But the reason was that the movie was from Orion and Orion went broke before the movie could get a theatrical release. After a lot of trouble it finally came out on cable and eventually made it to the Oscars. I remember seeing on HBO, don't remember if it came out theatrically at any point. I believe it did for a short run, when Orion was trying to salvage itself and get all their unreleased movies shown.
Well your are correct, all if not most of the backgrounds are live actions plates and all other thing (dinos and FX) were composited over them. Though plates were digitally manipulated and digital matte paintings were used.
This year at SIGGRAPH (the premier event in Computer Graphics) they will have a course on the making of Dinosaur. Here is the course list for anyone interested:
Last SIGGRAPH they actually had a panel where one guy from Disney showed some clips of the work in progress. Interestingly enough on that same panel there was a guy from Square that also showed some clips from the movie: one was a something like a space station blowing up, the other this big huge Harrier like ship (probably the one pictured as the first prop), landing on a deserted street at night and blowing trash and a car away because of the exhaust vents. Looked pretty good IMHO. One more reason to go to SIGGRAPH, you never know what cool things might one could look at.
It was mostly Linux on Alpha workstations, which were doing the rendering. But the interactive work was probably allmost all SGI gear. Anyway here is the link to the article referencing their renderfarm setup Titanic and Linux.
Well, probably the 2 most famous are Blue Sky Studios and R/GA Digital. Blue Sky has worked on "Joe's Apartement", "Alien 4", "Star Trek: Insurrection", "Armageddon", and many others. R/GA mainly does commercials now, but they were responsible for the FX of the Predator movies. Another one on the East coast is Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company who worked on things like "Clear and Present Danger", "Stargate", and the Spiderman ride at Universal Studios.
Keep in mind that most companies in the US are in California, after all they have to be close where the business is. And if you are thinking about jobs, better start saving and planning for SIGGRAPH 2000.
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Actually the fourth one is in production (2 Toy Story movies and A Bugs Life), called Monsters Inc. Probably the fifth one may be in development. They also got a new short out called "For the Birds"
Not at all, because the film will be shown theatrically first.
It's not about the medium (celuloid or digital) or the delivery method (beamed or transmitted or delivering the rolls by FedEx), it's just about when the films are shown first.
I think even previous rules said that film had to be shown for at least a week in any theatre in LA to be eligible. That's all. Eventually someone will have a small thatre to project net films there first cheaply for a week (maybe some festival) and then they can be widely distributed on the Net. Problem solved.
That was Jessica Lange in the movie Blue Sky, also with Tommy Lee Jones. But the reason was that the movie was from Orion and Orion went broke before the movie could get a theatrical release. After a lot of trouble it finally came out on cable and eventually made it to the Oscars. I remember seeing on HBO, don't remember if it came out theatrically at any point. I believe it did for a short run, when Orion was trying to salvage itself and get all their unreleased movies shown.
Well your are correct, all if not most of the backgrounds are live actions plates and all other thing (dinos and FX) were composited over them. Though plates were digitally manipulated and digital matte paintings were used.
This year at SIGGRAPH (the premier event in Computer Graphics) they will have a course on the making of Dinosaur. Here is the course list for anyone interested:
SIGGRAPH 2000 Courses
Last SIGGRAPH they actually had a panel where one guy from Disney showed some clips of the work in progress. Interestingly enough on that same panel there was a guy from Square that also showed some clips from the movie: one was a something like a space station blowing up, the other this big huge Harrier like ship (probably the one pictured as the first prop), landing on a deserted street at night and blowing trash and a car away because of the exhaust vents. Looked pretty good IMHO. One more reason to go to SIGGRAPH, you never know what cool things might one could look at.
It was mostly Linux on Alpha workstations, which were doing the rendering. But the interactive work was probably allmost all SGI gear. Anyway here is the link to the article referencing their renderfarm setup Titanic and Linux.
Well, probably the 2 most famous are Blue Sky Studios and R/GA Digital. Blue Sky has worked on "Joe's Apartement", "Alien 4", "Star Trek: Insurrection", "Armageddon", and many others. R/GA mainly does commercials now, but they were responsible for the FX of the Predator movies. Another one on the East coast is Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company who worked on things like "Clear and Present Danger", "Stargate", and the Spiderman ride at Universal Studios.
Also check out http://www.ecdc.org/ for a list of companies. Other good places are VFXPro, Visual FX, and VFXHQ.
Keep in mind that most companies in the US are in California, after all they have to be close where the business is. And if you are thinking about jobs, better start saving and planning for SIGGRAPH 2000.