Linx Non-Technical: Movie "Schrek" and Linux

[Jeff Basham]

I have to agree with you on that one!
-Jeff

At 09:03 AM 05/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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>Whatever it used, it was totally funny; Myers is a great voice actor
>with a hilariously bent sense of humor!
>
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>---- ME <dugan at passwall.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > You may have heard about a new movie called, "Schrek" that uses a great
> > deal of computer animation.
> >
> > According to a "zdnet" article you get the impression that Linux was
> > used
> > for a huge part of the movie.
> >
> > ( http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2761566,00.html )
> >
> > A later article on slashdot includes discussion by users stating that
> > it
> > was only the rendering that was done on Linux based systems while the
> > modeling was done on/with SGI? IRIX
> >
> > ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/19/0140242&mode=thread )
> >
> > (Included user followup quote from slashdot:)
> > -IRIX for modeling, Linux for rendering (Score:2)
> > -by green pizza (colin at imaginemail.com) on Saturday May 19, @01:20PM
> > EST (#103)
> > -(User #159161 Info) http://texan.org
> > Linux was only used for rendering. The initial modeling, effects, and
> > final compositing of the rendered material was done on SGI Octane
> > workstations running IRIX. Audio was done on a Windows NT Protools
> > setup.
> >
> > I saw it, and found it to be fun. It seems to be targeting the young
> > adult
> > to adult market more than the kids. Funny, entertaining, was worth
> > it for
> > me for non-matinee price. Most humor would probably not have kids lauging
> > too hard. People who have suffered through dating will find many more
> > scenes entertaining. Don't think of this as a happy Disney movie due
> > to
> > what happens to characters and certain circumstances. (This gives nothing
> > plot-wise away about the movie.) If Disney was to make this kind of
> > movie,
> > it would probably be released under "Touchstone" be made by Pixar,
> > and not
> > use the Disney label. (They learned this problem for labels from the
> > old
> > movie "Black Hole")
> >
> > I am not so sure it will make *lots* of money though. The Theater was
> > nearly empty for the 9:40m show. Of course it was playing on 4 screens
> > at
> > the "Pacific Cinemas Rohnert Park 16", so I could have it all wrong
> > with
> > this guess.
> >
> > (Another "big" movie that used linux for some of the special effects
> > was
> > Titanic. However, I think it was stated the Linux cluster was used
> > for the
> > wave generation for the oceanic special effects and not much more.)
> >
> >
> >
>
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