Anybody remember what happened after "The Lion King" came out? A bunch of studios decided that they should get a piece of the bazillion dollars that Disney made from it. What happened to those studios' feature animation departments? They're gone--all of them.
It's all about story, story, story. It's always about story, story, story.
A bunch of studios are going to put out CG movies. There is only so much talent to go around but they'll put them out anyway. Most will bomb and most of the studios will go away.
Again.
CG is a tool to tell a story. Traditional animation is a tool to tell a story. Live action is...you get the picture.
I just wish Michael Eisner and Roy Disney would hurry up and clean house at Disney so they could get back to telling good stories again.
True and false. Remember I said that no matter how elegant the design, sometimes you just "can't" get the elegance you want from the code in these scripting languages. For example, to create a table in C#, I declare a "MenuBar = new HtmlTable()".
The point of the original article is that with the way eToys did it, the code is far more elegant because to create a table you do it in TemplateToolkit and not in Perl.
In fact, during the production of Beauty and the Beast, the animators painted a small triangle in a dark skin shade on the cheeks of
Belle that would "guide" CAPS to apply the cheek blush coloring at the right spot.
No, it would 'guide' the painters in coloring the cheeks. Then the painters would do the blends themselves.
CAPS meant that this entire department could be axed.
This is complete and utter crap. There is a rather large room at Feature Animation where the Ink & Paint department works...and works. CAPS cut down the number of painters needed to work on the movies. It did not eliminate the Ink & Paint Department.
Let's be absolutely clear on this: Disney does not use Amigas to render for their feature films. Period. Not "The Rescuers Down Under", not "The Lion King", not "Atlantis". THEY DO NOT USE AMIGAS.
Amigas were used by TV Animation for "Tale Spin" way back when. WDFA just doesn't use them. Why would they?
Animators make plenty, not even counting the huge bonuses handed out for TLK. Don't cry for animators.
TLK was not the same as Mermaid, not the same as Hercules, and nothing is the same as Atlantis.
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It was actually used in "The Rescuers Down Under" way back in 1990.
Anybody remember what happened after "The Lion King" came out? A bunch of studios decided that they should get a piece of the bazillion dollars that Disney made from it. What happened to those studios' feature animation departments? They're gone--all of them.
It's all about story, story, story. It's always about story, story, story.
A bunch of studios are going to put out CG movies. There is only so much talent to go around but they'll put them out anyway. Most will bomb and most of the studios will go away.
Again.
CG is a tool to tell a story. Traditional animation is a tool to tell a story. Live action is...you get the picture.
I just wish Michael Eisner and Roy Disney would hurry up and clean house at Disney so they could get back to telling good stories again.
Why is this marked as interesting instead of flamebait?
Perl isn't used by real software engineers but PHP is? Gimmie a break (and don't get me started on Java--talk about pointless).
Not understanding Perl is no excuse for name-calling.
If they want to rewrite their Perl (which is probably a bad idea in the first place), Perl IS an excellent choice.
The point of the original article is that with the way eToys did it, the code is far more elegant because to create a table you do it in TemplateToolkit and not in Perl.
In fact, during the production of Beauty and the Beast, the animators painted a small triangle in a dark skin shade on the cheeks of Belle that would "guide" CAPS to apply the cheek blush coloring at the right spot.
No, it would 'guide' the painters in coloring the cheeks. Then the painters would do the blends themselves.
CAPS meant that this entire department could be axed.
This is complete and utter crap. There is a rather large room at Feature Animation where the Ink & Paint department works...and works. CAPS cut down the number of painters needed to work on the movies. It did not eliminate the Ink & Paint Department.
A bit off topic but the /. article calls it GNU/Linux. Do we really have to go down rms's path of brainwashing?
That's what my programmable thermostat is doing at home right now...and it will never be cracked from Russia.
Let's be absolutely clear on this: Disney does not use Amigas to render for their feature films. Period. Not "The Rescuers Down Under", not "The Lion King", not "Atlantis". THEY DO NOT USE AMIGAS.
Amigas were used by TV Animation for "Tale Spin" way back when. WDFA just doesn't use them. Why would they?
Animators make plenty, not even counting the huge bonuses handed out for TLK. Don't cry for animators. TLK was not the same as Mermaid, not the same as Hercules, and nothing is the same as Atlantis.
Maya, in-house tools, and more. Basically, whatever they could get their hands on that did what they needed it to do.
There is no such thing as a lead animator for a movie. Disney TV Animation used Amigas way back when but WDFA doesn't use Amigas.
They couldn't successfully finish the project with C++ or Perl, might as well try Python. Oh yeah, it MUST be the languages' fault ;-).
"The Lion King" has made over a billion $$ for Disney by NOT following your suggestions. Wake up.
No, they didn't use Amigas. They used SGI's, just like everybody else.