One of RenderMan’s earliest uses in a feature film, the knight from the stained-glass window in the film, The Young Sherlock Holmes
RenderMan is celebrating its 20th birthday. RenderMan is the software developed by Pixar that was responsible for bringing computer graphics, for better or worse, to film-making. It was the first software to win an [...]

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Our own MikeyB reported on Resident Evil: Degeneration a few weeks ago, and if you missed that post, it’s an all-new Resident Evil film done in full CGI that’s based on the storyline that was built in the game series. In other words, it means this might actually be good. Well, this past weekends [...]

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By now, I’m sure you’ve heard from a little birdie that there is a huge movie coming out this weekend. One so epic, so ground breaking, that it’ll break all box office records and make Titanic look like The Adventures of Pluto Nash. I heard that people have been overloading Fandangos servers this week, [...]

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Ah, summer. A season of overblown budgets and extravagant productions. For movie goers everywhere, this three and a half month stretch is what they have waited for all year. So as always, the prediction for this summer is: Hollywood makes oodles of money. Over these next few months, this column will be examining the phenomena [...]

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Director Andrew Stanton and the team that delivered Finding Nemo help Pixar knock another one out of the park with their latest movie detailing the adventure had by an extremely lovable robot named WALL-E. In the film, we see that humans created so much trash on Earth that it can no longer sustain life [...]

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This one completely came out of left field. Mamoru Oshii is already hard at work on an upgraded version of the cult-classic Ghost in the Shell, dubbed Ghost in the Shell 2.0. The upgrade will feature updated visuals using modern animation techniques. Considering I still think the original version looks stunning, I don’t really see [...]

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Ah, summer. A season of overblown budgets and extravagant productions. For movie goers everywhere, this three and a half month stretch is what they have waited for all year. So as always, the prediction for this summer is: Hollywood makes oodles of money. Over these next few months, this column will be examining the phenomena [...]

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Disney has released a featurette promoting WALL-E, the new computer animated movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The film details a lone, forgotten robot named WALL-E, who had been placed here with a million other robots to help clean up all the trash left by us humans. The effort failed and we all vacated, but [...]

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