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> I've seen this version of Make used to build a feature animated film. Witnessing the versatility of that feature film's multitude of software and renders and

by sigil 9y ago

> I've seen this version of Make used to build a feature animated film. Witnessing the versatility of that feature film's multitude of software and renders and composites all built through Make taught me Make is the only tool needed for any building of anything. Awesome, tell us more! Which film was this? Or if you can't say, what year was it made? I have to imagine The Makefile Architecture is still pretty popular in VFX pipelines. I run a SaaS that's made end credits for hundreds of feature films (including "Moonlight"). Our render pipeline uses The Makefile Architecture.

bsenftner 9y ago
The first time I saw Make used in feature production was reviewing the "Last StarFigher" (1984) digital archives. This was after years of working in scientific visualization, and skirting VFX. Previously, while working in visualizations, Make was king for creating NASA, research publication and geologic animations. Much later, I saw Make in heavy use when entering the visual effects industry, but this was after another 15 years in the console video game industry. It was an incredibly welcome realization, after the, frankly, incredible cluster fuck and demoralizing experience of 15 years creating video games, to learn that the rational UNIX-paradigm (small simple tools) community I'd grown up in was alive in the VFX industry. Returning to the 'old school developers' I'd left in the left 80's was so reassuring to learn the tech world had not completely been brainwashed.