Friday, February 05, 2010
The Theater Rendering Farm
Lifehacker: "Today's featured workspace has quite a few points of interest: it's a temporary Mac-based rendering farm temporarily set up in a theater to handle the heavy lifting of designing the visuals for a stage production."
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While the rigs and setups that the team that the article focused on was impressive and interesting to know, I would love to know what exactly the entire rendering farm was there to do. The article mentioned projections, but that was about it. After describing how much power the team needed to do it's job, the article failed to mention exactly what that job was. While it's interesting to see performances needed this kind of graphical power, the explanation means nothing if there is no context put behind it. For all I know, they need a really photo-realistic bunny, and they just could render something like that without the setup the have.
while it's great to see this coming to theatres, it's still nothing new. hollywood, CGI studios, and even some modest editing companies have had all this for a while. Final cut is on version 5 or 6 now, isn't it? and aftereffects is on version 7... throw in some fancy midi devices and interpreters, and you can get any system to interface with projections now. interesting, yes, but imho still far too expensive for theatre
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