Comment Will we ever catch up to our ambitions? (Score 1) 262
In the past, CG technology was driven by ambitious individuals who didn't have a very clear idea how they would pull off what the bigwigs had planned around the table. For example, some of the early commercials done by Omnibus, and the first CG effects to appear in film and television used state-of-the-art techniques and hardware to achieve their goals. The directors and producers had the vision, and it was up to the technicians to make it possible.
Do you think that there will ever be a time that the technicians won't have to write new software in order to achieve the latest visual effect...because it already exists? Will we get to a point when the methodology for such advanced techniques as facial mo-cap and fluid dynamics is so well known that it small studios and home users with little training in computer science will understand them?
Do you think that there will ever be a time that the technicians won't have to write new software in order to achieve the latest visual effect...because it already exists? Will we get to a point when the methodology for such advanced techniques as facial mo-cap and fluid dynamics is so well known that it small studios and home users with little training in computer science will understand them?
