Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:07:41 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Happy <kuishin@singnet.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? Message-ID: <3CA7263D.4070009@cream.org> References: <000501c1d8b2$32ea9fe0$91ff7dcb@ajax>
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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
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