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When (if at all) will it be feasible for a bunch of kids in a garage to make a feature-length realistic-cgi movie? Assume computing on the public cloud, movie b
by quarterwave 12y ago
When (if at all) will it be feasible for a bunch of kids in a garage to make a feature-length realistic-cgi movie? Assume computing on the public cloud, movie budget $1M.
- ykl 12y agoThe big cost driver in making animated movies isn't in the software or tools anymore and hasn't been for some time now; the big cost driver is now in authoring all of the assets and content that you actually need. It takes a ton of really talented people to create all of the photorealistic detailed models and animation and whatnot that you need to make a CG movie look convincing. Artists are way more expensive than computers.
- dualogy 12y ago> Artists are way more expensive than computers YC disciples totally need to Disrupt The Heck Out Of That Niche
- VikingCoder 12y ago"realistic" is the killer word, which opens your question up to entirely too much interpretation. Toy Story was very realistic for the time. And I think people are routinely generating CGI that looks as nice as Toy Story... they just don't have as good a writing, acting, etc.