D-Bone
Mar 20th '03, 04:56 PM
This was a cool article about the rendering and processing used for Lord of the Rings movies. Here's a snipet:
All the film first comes to WD and is scanned into the computer system through the use of one of two Imagica Film Scanners. These scanners can scan at 3.2 mega pixels at an amazing 64 billion colours. The speed of this is about 4.5 frames/second
The data is then fed to the storage facility along a 4 gigabit Ethernet.
From the reels alone Weta stores about ? a petabyte of data. By the end of film three this amount is expected to reach 1 petabyte.
The workstation structure at Weta is astronomical. They have:
-125 SGI Octane systems
-220 Linux systems
-35 NT systems
-15 Mac systems
Then there?s the rendering system?. The renderer alone is run 24 hours a day rendering out the 1000 odd shots that were required for TTT. It consists of 192 Dual Pentium 1 GHz and 448 Dual 2.2 GHz processors. A total of 1280 processors running at approximately 2,355 GHz?
To read the full article, which I recommend, click here (http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1047582857).
All the film first comes to WD and is scanned into the computer system through the use of one of two Imagica Film Scanners. These scanners can scan at 3.2 mega pixels at an amazing 64 billion colours. The speed of this is about 4.5 frames/second
The data is then fed to the storage facility along a 4 gigabit Ethernet.
From the reels alone Weta stores about ? a petabyte of data. By the end of film three this amount is expected to reach 1 petabyte.
The workstation structure at Weta is astronomical. They have:
-125 SGI Octane systems
-220 Linux systems
-35 NT systems
-15 Mac systems
Then there?s the rendering system?. The renderer alone is run 24 hours a day rendering out the 1000 odd shots that were required for TTT. It consists of 192 Dual Pentium 1 GHz and 448 Dual 2.2 GHz processors. A total of 1280 processors running at approximately 2,355 GHz?
To read the full article, which I recommend, click here (http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1047582857).