Anybody have any info on today's WWDC
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Pixar Presentation
this afternoon?? Would love to hear that Renderman was announced and shown running off a giant cluster of new sMacs (server/super macs).. any news?? can't believe there's nothing out there yet..
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The session was an excellent summary of Pixar's movie development process, followed by a demo of a little storyboard pitcher app the speaker wrote in Cocoa in a week.
He also mentioned that Pixar is moving towards OS X for artwork in the future.
Perhaps that's a hint that the rackmount server will be more than just a fileserver. I'm hoping the rackmount will be a renderfarm solution. Each unit can be linked with other unit over a the Firewire2 interface.
"The first evening, I basically made it work," said Johnson. Within a week, it was complete enough to begin using on a new animated film project.
"I could not have done this in Linux, not to mention Windows. This is the kind of thing that gets us excited," Johnson said. <hr></blockquote>
"That and those hilariously enhanced 3d women that the Maya-heads create every once in a while" Johnson added.
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> sorry...it's a friday...
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