From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 7: 6:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 356AA37B417 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 07:06:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 132 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2002 15:06:29 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 31 Mar 2002 15:06:29 -0000 Message-ID: <3CA7263D.4070009@cream.org> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:07:41 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Happy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? References: <000501c1d8b2$32ea9fe0$91ff7dcb@ajax> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Happy wrote: >Hi, > I have read on the Internet that FreeBSD is used in making the effects >of the movie, The Matrix. Is that true? > > Are there any movies whose effects are made using freebsd?? >If so,does that mean that an ordinary PC can also produce such effects if >the PC is running freebsd and the apporopiate hard/software? > I think you'll find that FreeBSD is mostly used as a server OS for the rendering of such scenes, not the actual artistic process of creating them. Although I believe there is 3D software available for Linux (and hence runnable under FreeBSD) I think many companies probably stick to Windows or possibly Irix to create there scenes in. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message