Anyone know if DD is using VRay for I Robot?
--Jon
Sorry :lol:
Just a moment of confusion. :roll: When I typed Digital Domain I was thinking Digital Dimension
Nevermind 
--Jon
You were right - “I Robot” is being produced in Digital Domain 
jan
Yeah, When I read that I was just thinking immediately of the great work Digital Dimension’s been doing with VRay 
On that same note, I’ve seen The Last Samurai two times and nothing disturbed me about the CG elements, great work Digital Dimension. Also when I rented Final Destination 2 the logs and other CGI translated perfectly to video.
--Jon
I asked friend of mine at Digital Domain and he told me that I robot is purely RenderMan. Also he pointed me out on their site http://www.irobotnow.com/
jan
nice…thanks for the link , honzal
paul.
Well this is a little off topic now but since you all are interested, here is a link to the directors site where he’s nice enough to answer some questions
http://mysteryclock.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=10&ARCHIVEVIEW=&TOPIC\_ID=667
Reminds me of how great Vlado is on this forum.
--Jon
Oh, and they should have used VRay
--Jon
yeah, I think so too…I mean, their rendering is good but nothing that one can’t do w/ vray…I wonder if renderman is generally faster then vray…
paul.
cpnichols has mentioned that it’s much slower. Seems that the only selling point now days is the motion blur.
--Jon
J_Bug - great link great open minded director
What I know about Vray in a film production - everybody saying - till it will be a standalone or at least Maya plug, studios will not use it with Max ( believe or not but vfx people still like their nice maya boxes better 
jan
renderman is much slower when it comes to high quality raytracing. Otherwise it is an probably the best scanline rendering engine in the world… problem is, everyone wants effects that are better suited for raytracing.
BTW, digital domain uses a lot of different software, a lot of which is there own software, even some of their own rendering engines. Some of their software is even for sale…
ps… not advertising… just really cool software.
pps… it would be impossible for Digital Domain to use vray since they do not use 3ds.
just small off topic Do you guys know who created the word “ROBOT” and what is that mean ?
jan
I found this:
The word robot comes from the Czech playwright Karel Capek, sometime in the 1920’s. The Czech word ‘robota’ means work. Issac Asimov, the profilic science and science fiction author, invented the word robotics in the 1940’s to refer to the study of robot technology.
Actually I do…
It was the Late, Great…
ISAAC ASIMOV
but I think it was based on a very similar word from an author whom I can’t recall from his same country.
Let me see if I can find the reference where I read this. It may have been in the preface of his book Gold.
--Jon
Dooohhhhh :!:
I stepped outside before I posted this and look what happens.
Daaaarn youuu Rerender
edit: what he said
edit: Read Gold, it’s a collection of shorts that are very entertaining.
edit: If you have a spare month or so read the Foundation series. My dream has always been, if it is ever realized by someone, to work on (in any way :!: Like even “Do you guys need a janitor?”) the cinematic version of this great series. I’ve always preached that most any truly great SciFi movie, and some TV shows, I’ve seen are influenced by this great series (or I Robot) in some very key way. If you can’t tell, I’m very excited that this movie is being made :!:
--Jon
then how did they use vray for the swords in “the last samurai”?
see this:
paul.
RErender GOOD - you got 100points
Cocolas - you are wrong - The last samurai Digital DIMENSION did not Digital DOMAIN
Karel Capek who created the word ROBOT was really great writer - if you have a chance to read some book from him - do it - it is really worth !
btw: he was czech as I am and he lived in the same city - beautiful Prague.
jan
Digital Dimension = Last Samuti, FD2 + many others
Digital Domain = I Robot + many others
http://www.digitaldomain.com/
Same thing I did :lol:
--Jon
:lol: :lol: :lol:
sorry my bad…all these "digital"s in the names got me confused…
paul.