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A lot of the tools in pixar are wonderfully clunky. They went through a phase of hiring hip young things fresh out of MIT to write tools. Instead of nice frien
by KaiserPro 13y ago
A lot of the tools in pixar are wonderfully clunky.
They went through a phase of hiring hip young things fresh out of MIT to write tools. Instead of nice friendly tools that play well together, they got a lot of domain specific languages.
- berkut 13y agoYeah, they're starting to use off-the-shelf software a lot more recently...
- yardie 13y agoIt's been this way in the visual effects industry for decades. Most of the tools are used through a Posix layer with Perl to keep things tidy. Going into the VFX forums even a few years ago I was amazed at illustrators knowing enough Perl and Python to get the job done, because, "Designers can't code good!" Even the commercial stuff looks like some graduate students thesis work. A basic Java GUI and about 50+ commandline arguments.