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> > PPS. The real highlight of the show was previews of "Toy Story"
> what platform/software is this animation done on?

The animation was mostly created on SGIs and rendered on a roomfull
of Sun Sparcstations (117 systems with 294 cpus). Both in house and
off the shelf code was used including Alias for modeling and Renderman
for rendering (of course).

> Is it a one-man project?

Yeah, working out of his basement on a souped up Amiga 500. Seriously,
there are 28 animators, 30 technical directors, and a total Pixar
staff of 110. They produced 75 minutes of animation or 500GB of frames.

>  What did you like most about it? (let me guess, the character animation?)

Actually, no. The story and its execution (or at least what I saw of it).
It was hilarious. Of course the character animation was great and certainly
contributes to the execution of the story. But I also loved the cinema-
tography.
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     *         Fusion Films, Inc.             [e-mail]  *
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