From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 29 11: 6:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [216.99.193.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F42137B5FD for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12377; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:06:40 -0800 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id LAA07607; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:06:17 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:06:17 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Dan Piponi Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Matrix" visual effects In-Reply-To: <20000329154650.12731.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It took 18 months to convert those photographs into > something that was good enough to show on film. Much > of that work was, however, intensive 2D work, not 3D > work, and so was carried out on SGIs. (I wrote any > custom 2D code that was used.) > > (I only speak for Manex Visual Effects - there were > quite a few shots from other visual effects companies > too.) And a great job too! Can you tell us if you're working on or have been contacted regarding the 2nd and 3rd movies? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message