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You make a few statements regarding films: First, "I've seen this version of Make used to build a feature animated film" and later you state "I write my Make fi
by johnhenry 9y ago
You make a few statements regarding films: First, "I've seen this version of Make used to build a feature animated film" and later you state "I write my Make films by hand".
I suspect the second statement might be a type-o -- accidentally using "films" in place of "files" -- but in the case that it's not, I wonder if you could detail the practice of "Make films" -- seems like it might be interesting.
- bsenftner 9y agoI meant "make feature animated films". During the late 80's, before more 'sophisticated'; build tools polluted developer's young brains, early visual effects were "nothing more" than complex Makefiles triggering renders and composites. All one needed was a facility that looked at the date stamp of two files, and if one was older that meant these series of command lines is executed. Beyond very basic #define style macro substitution, that was all that was used to create many feature film effects, as well as nearly ever single early 3D animated renderer produced animation before 1992.