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warpy
03-28-2006, 07:57 AM
unless it was posted or realy old news, it appears that ILM and LucasArts are joining forces to make sure world domination is just around the corner :)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20060327/bs_bw/id20060327719255
JosephGoss
03-28-2006, 12:02 PM
george lucas owns both companies?

so they are in a way "joined", or am i wrong?
kemijo
03-28-2006, 07:19 PM
LucasArts, ILM, THX, etc...all part of LucasFilm.

http://www.lucasfilm.com/divisions/
Slurry
03-28-2006, 07:34 PM
If you guys read the article it states that they will both be using a new software platform called Zeno in hopes both companies will share assets and collaborate.

Warpy wasn't reporting news that the companies are related through Lucas. The article even goes so far as to state the fact in the opening paragraph.

Because two companies are owned by the same person doesn't mean they are automatically "joined" or work together.

Art
malducin
03-28-2006, 07:37 PM
unless it was posted or realy old news, it appears that ILM and LucasArts are joining forces to make sure world domination is just around the corner

No, the article is new, based on a presentaion Sullivan and Williams gave at GDC 2006 (I have other links at my site).

But the news itself is kinda old, since when they announced that the companies would move to the same facility at the Presidio, there were already news that they would merge the infrastructure and pipeline.

Seems there is some confusion about the news out there. The thing is that they are using Zeno as the base for both companies operations.
warpy
03-28-2006, 10:28 PM
yeap its all about zeno, any of you know what zeno is/look like ?
malducin
03-29-2006, 03:41 AM
Zeno is their propietary animation environment. It started as dynamics code for Star Wars Ep. 1 (circa 1998). Since then it has been expanded to handle more things. Basically it's the base of the pipeline, designed so that off the shelf software can plug in. Say do work in Maya, but when they need to run some propietary code for something, they do it in Zeno. It's modular so they can keep plugin new modules. It allows to seamlessly work between off the shelf and their propietary apps.

It's not only a 3D animation environment, but also has stuff for 2.5D work for the matte painting dept., called Zenviro.

I do know what it looks like, though I'm bound by secrecy.
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