Macs are going out.

Don't forget SoftImage and PRMan by Pixar.  By far these are the 2 most used
by the big special effects houses in H wood.

And Blue Moon just happens to run RIBS which is PRMan compliant.  Its free
for non-commercial use.

Just some info.

Mike Norton

Jon A. Cruz wrote in message <3543B4AF.77937287@geocities.com>...
>Well, actually Lightwave is more for the mid-range. Also, it's less
>expensive than most others, and runs fine on most recent PC's (Pentium
>90 perhaps).
>
>For a lot of work done with Macs, Electric Image is used. Then there's
>Alias and Wavefront.
>
>BTW, Bab5 is more of a small-time production comparatively. Their budget
>used to be half of Star Trek episodes.
>
>
>blu### [at] junocom wrote:
>>
>>  For ID4, the plane were computer modelled... whether they were
ray-traced,
>> path-traced, or photon-traced, I do not know. But most big-time
raytracing
>> productions (like Babylon 5) use a commercial package called Lightwave.
>> Although IMHO Lightwave users generally do not turn out scenes quite as
>> realistic as POV, it is much faster, and has somewhat better modelling
>> techniques available to it. It is, however, VERY expensive, and requires
>> an ungodly amount of power to run. With a little creativity, and some
luck
>> besides, I think POV can turn out better stuff. (I refer you to a user
known
>> as Taura Learfox)
>>                                              Just my three cents. =)
>>                                              Blue.

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