Intel and DreamWorks Working On Rendering Animation In Real-Time 114
PolygamousRanchKid writes "This week while speaking at the Techonomy conference, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told audience members that they'd formulated the solution for real-time rendering of animation for video. Katzenberg told the audience that they'd been working hand-in-hand with Intel in order to rewrite their software to take advantage of scalable multi-core processors, this allowing them to achieve advances that will, for lack of a better term, revolutionize the animation process."
Re:Rotoscope? (Score:4, Interesting)
No, think more along the idea of Rango [imdb.com] - an animated film that used human actors as guides for the animators in terms of facial expressions and posing. Took quite a while to do.
Hopefully this will bring some creativity to the genre as opposed to simply cranking out more Shrek reruns.
Which is it? (Score:5, Interesting)
Does anyone actually feel like watching the video to see what the claim is?