Rohan Bernett wrote:
> 
> Rendering time would depend on the resolution of the footage, and if it was
> distributed it might be possible.
> 
To make it watchable, it would have to be have to be at a reasonable
resolution, I doubt anyone would want to watch a postage size image for
any length of time, running full screen would be preferable.

> Well... the file size would depend on the resolution of the video, For
> example 320*180 would be a lot smaller than 1024*576, especially if it was
> compressed. Maybe there could be a low detail version to download, and a
> high detail one to buy on CD or DVD.
> 
In your original posting, you said that the animation would be word for
word as in the book, the Harry Potter film left out a lot, and even that
run into 147 mins (info from DVD).
I would imagine that animating the whole book word for word would run a
lot longer than that, thereby increasing the overall file size, even at
modest resolution.
You would still be looking at 150 - 200 mb per hour of veiwing time.
(based on other films I've downloaded).
EG.
Star Trek - Hidden Frontier do their show in Quicktime.
X-Files - Graceland is in Real Video.
For the majority of the audience, DivX would preferable, as this is what
most of the group post in.
> 
> Wouldn't the studios have done their rendering at a really high resolutions,
> say 16000*9000 ? The studios would only have been using a few hundred
> machines to do the rendering, a distributed project could have thousands.
> Hell, if enough people joined the rendering team, they could be rendering
> frames faster than the asrtists could make the scenes for rendering.
> 
Agreed, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace did this, but they also used the
office PC's when the office staff went home, augmenting their own PC's
by another 100 or so.

The group has a movie project going at the moment, is started (many)
years ago. using the idea that you proposed, I have heard nothing about
it lately.

> Rohan _e_ii
> 
> Nice to see someone else from Australia in the newsgroup.

There a quite a few in the group from Australia, I live about half an
hour's drive from Chris Cason (turns and bows), in the Western Suburb of
Melbourne.

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