How two Austin creatives found ways to mix fire and water in pixarelemental.
The physics of attraction: Ember Lumen and Wade , the embodiments of the massive technical challenges tackled by the team behindIf you're the kind of person to stick around through the closing credits of animated films – say for example, Pixar's– to see the little playful details added just for fun, you may see a job title and wonder, exactly what does that mean?
Same question for another ex-Austinite, Production Manager Dana Frankoff."Basically we manage the pipeline, make sure that everything gets done from A to Z," she explains."Production works under the producer, we make sure that everything stays on time, it's within the budget.". Most animated scenes or features, you have a character, and you light them. Not here. In, surfaces don't just bounce light back.
Pixar's such a well-oiled machine, except for the fact that we keep coming up with all these very innovative ideas, and we have to come up with new technology and work around it.: And that's a major part of what Pixar does, innovate technology. At the same time, technology changes while you're in production, so how do you integrate all of that?: At the beginning of the film, the leaders of the show knew there were going to be some big technical projects to get this film made.
The other side is that we knew that that pipeline is really expensive in time and memory and disc space. So, for example, Ember's runtime through Hexport, is something like 20 hours for a single shot. So we had these sequences in the film that have thousands of characters, and we knew that it wasn't going to be possible to run Hexport on every character for every frame for every shot. That would be thousands of terabytes that we would be writing out and then rendering.
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