Re: Is it composited...

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:04:06 -0600
>From: P3D Bob Wier writes:
>|(I said)
>|**********  Based on a show about the making of the Disney film, they did
>|indeed use real live puppies. Thousands of them. They had to hire a lot of
>|trainers because every six weeks required a new batch since they grow so
>|fast. It was mind boggling to hear about. That doesn't rule out the use of
>|computer generated puppies for one or more scenes though!
>|
>
>Really? The show *I* saw very specifically said that there was no way
>they could control 99 puppies (although they did use 3 adult dogs)
>and get them to hit their mark :-) Maybe there was *indeed* some switching 
>back and forth betweed CG and real.

**********  I'm pretty sure this was the case. I wish I could have seen the
show you saw. It was different than the one I saw which dwelt more
exclusively with the puppies, trainers, etc and didn't get into the
technical aspects of the film. They seemed more concerned with all the folks
who would inadvertently end up with rather troublesome pets. They're
beautiful dogs but not the greatest pets unless you are really into them.

It's this fact that such mixing together of real footage and generated
footage is now so relatively easy to do that has graphic artists drooling!
I'm half way there myself and will really start drooling when such things
start to become routinely 3D instead of 2 1/2D.

The biggest problem is that an SGI workstation is rather expensive...
especially with all the other goodies added to the system!

By the time you can do a lot of that stuff on the home PC, they will be
doing something even more far-out with the big systems.

Larry Berlin

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