More WETA techincal data

[Marcus Telcontar]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=2197798&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general&thesecondsubsection=&reportid=56531


Hooooo boy! I'm starting to think not even ILM has this much raw rendering power. This is just amazing what WETA have racked up in their computer racks now

[Mu Satach]

200 terabytes of data?!?!?!

Hokey Shnitz!!!!!!!!!

*drools*

[CMJ]

Pretty impressive. I have no idea what kinda trump card ILM has, but I'm sure they have one. ;)

[JMK]

I'm sure they do too. They also seem to have the cream of the crop as far as cg animators go. But the folks who did LOTR did an unbelievable job. :)

[Marcus Telcontar]

They also seem to have the cream of the crop as far as cg animators go

I would have said Pixar myself - they have done things that have been more unbelieveable than ILM CG-wise. Pixar and Dreamworks are the ones really pushing CG with their animated features that just get more and more incredible with each passing movie.

[Darth Viscera]

Well I'd say that ILM and Pixar are sleeping in the same bed. IMO it was the Episode I teaser trailer ending in .mov that really made Quicktime a household name, and I've been using it since 1990.

[JMK]

Lucas created Pixar didn't he? And then sold it to Disney?
I still think ILM's podrace and the Coruscan cityscape in AotC is some of the best CG ever.