Monthly Archives: February 2008

CPU Benchmarks circa 1997

CPU Benchmarks circa 1997

About 10 years ago we were curious to see how our SGI's stacked up against other processors in terms of rendering power. We chose ...

 

The Ebb and Flow

The Ebb and Flow

The NY Times prepared an interesting graph showing movie grosses for the last 10+ years. Interesting to see the shapes of gross earnings over ...

 

Do actors really matter anymore?

Do actors really matter anymore?

ABC News visited Sony Imageworks to confirm that actors really are important for mocap movies. View their 4 minute piece on the subject.

 

Quicktime Quality

Quicktime Quality

For some reason, Quicktime will choose the lowest quality stream when viewing video (by default.) This is particularly noticeable when you are watching DV ...

 

Annie Award Wins

Annie Award Wins

Congratulations to our two Annie award winners for Surf's Up. Deborah Carlson won the category of "Best Individual Achievement in Animated Effects" for her ...

 

VES Sneak Peek

VES Sneak Peek

Tomorrow, Saturday, February 9 from 2-5pm, the Visual Effects Society will offer a sneak peek at some of this year's nominated work. I'll ...

 

A couple of Variety mentions

A couple of Variety mentions

Surf's Up got a couple of nice mentions in Variety today. In the article "CGI Lighting get transformed", David Cohen speaks to our documentary ...

 

Multithreading & Gpgpu, A quick tour

Multithreading & Gpgpu, A quick tour

I just read a great post by Mark Alexander on the current state of Multithreading and GpGPU work. Mark gave me permission to re-posted ...

 

More press

More press

Cnet's Daniel Terdiman writes, "Why Sony Imageworks got an Oscar Nomination for Surf's Up". A detailed read about how we made the waves and ...

 

Quote of the day

Quote of the day

The only problem with doing nothing is you never know when you're done.