Re: Pixar rendered Toy Story

[P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I hope that ILM (they did "Toy Story", right?) is hanging onto thier
> > rendering files. It would seem relatively easy to generate a second pass on
> > it
> > to make a 3D movie if one had the inclination/finances/time.
> >
> 
> Actually it was Pixar who did the animation.  I guess it took a wall of sun
> workstations to render this film so my guess is they will hold on to the files


A wall of workstations and a _LOT_ of rendering (reads: time and money).

While I'm not sure how "relatively easy" a task it'd be to re-render this entire 
movie for a second eyeball, stereo base/lighting/et al correctly set for each 
scene, from what I remember of the movie it would be possible for the vast 
majority of the film. I do know it would be extremely expensive.

As Greg W. and others have pointed out, there are special effects which are not 
"modeled" in the traditional sense by the animation software, and these would not 
be renderable in stereo as in the above. We are however, talking about a _very_ 
small amount of film here when compared with the work as a whole.

Eric G.


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