Dreamworks: Katzenberg Says New Software Makes Animation 50-70x Faster

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 13:01 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said today that his company and Intel did a joint development project, spending tens of millions of dollars, to rewrite all software to do animate in real-time, taking advantage of more powerful processor. He says the results are nothing short of revolutionary for any company that does high end rendering. ...

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