SUBMITTED BY Fred Hill

August 14, 2001 —

There was a very nice article about SGI which helped make some nice shots in movies this past summer. Check out what they did with your film and what is bring planned. Thank you Squrik for the info.

SGI(TM) IRIX(R) OS-based compute power provided the Academy Award(R) winning artists of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) the means to create, design, animate, photo-realistically light and render the amazing array of visual effects that enhance five of this summer's biggest blockbuster films. ILM, using proprietary software written on Silicon Graphics(R) O2(R) visual workstations as well as off-the-shelf 3D modeling and animation software, completed approximately 350 visual effects shots on The Mummy Returns, 160 shots on Pearl Harbor, 200 shots on A.I., 400 shots on Jurassic Park III and 140 shots on Planet Of The Apes. ILM, which has used SGI(TM) systems since 1988, uses more than 500 Silicon Graphics O2 visual workstations networked to an 800-processor SGI(TM) 2000 series system with 400GB of storage.

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