Maya for special effects...

[Martin-K-]

they use uncompressed data. the last thing you would want to do is use avi,mpeg.. when rendering out often use tga,tiff,rla,prf etc..

[Br0nZiLLa]

djees, uncompressed... how big would their hard drives be then??

[Martin-K-]

they have special servers that only have hard drives. huge raids of lots of gigs.

[Br0nZiLLa]

Originally posted by Martin-K-
they have special servers that only have hard drives. huge raids of lots of gigs.
I accidentally ran into something, I quote: "Data management is maximized by our mammoth centralized storage servers with RAID protection. Our capacity: a whopping 2.3 terabytes with additional near-line storage and round-the clock data management. "
This is from Tippett studio's ...they did the effects in Starship troopers eg.

[Chappo]

And at what resolution do they render ?

[phatgroovn]

Most film work is done in the neighborhood of 2K res. Also these images are generally at least in 10 bit (per channel), if not 16 per channel. Each frame can easily be several megabytes in size.

[wiezel]

the large effects houses also have their own team of programers, which write a myriad of software that seamlessly integrates with the main application. they can do things a owner of alias wavefront maya can't. hence they're a couple of steps ahead of anyyone only using off the shelf software. (this takes care of the part "i'm wondering this because all is so realistic, ..."

[Chappo]

No wonder i drop my jaw at a new movie release ;)

[Br0nZiLLa]

But at what reso do they render their shit?

[Martin-K-]

if you own any software...and choose the resolution to render out with..you will see the resolutions that it comes with. choose the highest resolution and youll get the idea.

[wedge]

2048 is approximately the width of a feature film frame... it varies from project to project, and in the past they didn't even use resolutions for their film because.... well.... it's film. now the industry is moving towards digital film - episode 2 for example. anyway, 2000x is about right.

[Chappo]

a res of 2048 ????

Wow.... you could print it out and use the rendered image as a nice poster :)

[Br0nZiLLa]

g-g-g-g-godDAMN..
btw whats " a wip" ? cous in Holland when we say " a wip" it means " a f*ck".. so everytime someone says " hey nice WIP", all the Dutch folks on the board think " hey nice ..." ..you understand where im getting at?

[Chappo]

Hahahaha.. haven't looked at it that way, still you are very correct :)

nice WIP ..hahaa

W.I.P. means Work In Progress ;)

[Br0nZiLLa]

okay bedankt, de volgende keer als ik verder ga met een project dan zeg ik tegen mn vriendin " ik ga ff wippen meid"
*SMAK!*
naww :D

[Chappo]

Wanneer post je hier een wip van je stuff :)

[Br0nZiLLa]

bij 2d artwork staat wat waar ik net aan begonnen ben.

[alx]

hey that was a good question i allways wondered
at what rez did they render, and thanks to all for
the answers, they sure helped more than one
person!!!!

:D

[arctor]

Take a look at :
http://www.flarg.com/

there are a couple of links to render statistics that, while a little technical, are still informative.

Daniel Wexler wrote the PDI renderer.

[Zafoo]

I know the full effects renders for the first Jurrasic Park were in the range of 10 Terrabytes. The place I work at is looking at gettting about 150TB.

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