[geeks] Quick CG question...

[Lionel Peterson]

Hello all,

I just came back from seeing "Finding Nemo", and I noticed at the end
of the film that Sun gets credit for being the rendering machines...

Cool - but I have a question.

I worked with computer graphics in school (like 1990-1992? we used
Targa boards), and when we "rendered" we made image files, that were
eventually "written" to tape using a 3/4" video deck that could write
one frame at a time. But to do this, your final output card
(framebuffer) and recodring media limited the resolution possible.

How do they go from a graphics file to film for "real" projects? (at a
high level)

Thanks,
  

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
http://sbc.yahoo.com