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Having worked at Pixar for almost 4 years leaving at the end of Incredibles, I can tell you that on the desktop we moved from SGI to IBM Intel Xeon machines at the end of Monsters Inc. Half way through Nemo we moved from Sun Renderfarm to Racksaver Dual Xeon Blades. We never used AMD products. The move to OS X is the right move for the studio, and was not ever pushed on us by Steve. Steve allowed Pixar to make it’s own choices, and for a long time Apple products weren’t it. With OS X, and the G5 Series machines this has finally come to the right point to start making the move. In the end Pixar makes the right choice for the studio.

– Rock

dekekincaid wrote:

dg wrote:

Plus all, and I mean ALL big vfx studios in the world have at least a Flame in their set of tools

Yes and no. The companies doing full cgi (Disney, Dreamworks, Core, etc…) aren’t using Flame for film work. DD has them but only uses them for client sessions on the commercial side. The reliance on Flame and Inferno in vfx for the film side has gone down a lot these days. R&H is still using old Cineon’s for compositing and a lot of shake and digital fusion. Again, Inferno boxes are mainly for the commercial side.

dg wrote:

But thinking that Shake is acctually the best solution avaliable on the market it’s not being real with things, it still lacks of many or better tools that you can find in much cheaper tools.

I’m guessing your refering to Combustion. Yes it does have better tools but Combustion and AE are equally missing just as many tools. Which is why Shake and Combustion or Shake and Gfx are a pretty nice team. I would much rather do anything to do with paint in C* or Gfx and the rest in Shake.

dg wrote:

As for Pixar switching their pipeline to Mac is kinda obvious, besides the fact that Steve Jobs is a major share holder there, they will act as a huge hands on action RD “department” for Apple products line and marketing strategies.

I always have to bring this up. If what you said is true, then why didn’t Pixar switch over to Apple machines (or NeXT machines for that matter) a long time ago. Jobs has been running Pixar since the beginning and he took back over Apple 8 years ago. Pixar went from SGi’s to AMD linux machines for the Incredibles.

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