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SHAPING THE LIGHT – RENDERING

Old time animation was a super-intensive cell-by-cell process. Colossal amounts of artist’s time went into all of the tiny attendant details that went with the main image being conveyed: the intricate dance of light and shadow, reflection and hue, texture and contrast… crafting quality shading takes time – lots of time. The audience demands their entertainment and the beleaguered artists work fervently to accommodate them. Oh, what shall spare our artists from being worked until they drop?
Rendering.

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VFX LEGEND RICHARD EDLUND JOINS DEVIL & DEMON BOARD

duMonde VFX recently delivered over 100 VFX shots for NBC’s Crossbones series, using Devil & Demon’s mobile super-computer, The Devil’s Playground. These included many complex ship-replacement shots, involving CG simulation, texturing, modeling and lighting work, that Edlund described as “number-crunchingly intensive and would not have been possible without the unrivalled speed of Devil & Demon technology.”

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RICHARD EDLUND NAMED TO DEVIL & DEMON BOARD

THE VFX PIONEER BEHIND FILMS SUCH AS ‘STAR WARS’ PLANS TO WORK WITH THE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY MAKER TO DEVELOP TOOLS FOR HOLLYWOOD.
Academy Award-winning visual effects pioneer Richard Edlund has joined the board of directors of computing technology maker Devil & Demon Strategy, bringing his expertise to the young brand as it aims to develop technology for digital artists and Hollywood studios.

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Amy Gile – Why a Technology Company?

When you consider that I started in front of the camera, and it took me until I was 36 years old to admit proudly my full nerd and love of technology, it is a valid question. As the industry was changing and we shifted from film to digital, a hole developed in our workflow. It was becoming less about collaboration and more about the urgency to make it work with everyone, regardless of their location or where they were in the workflow. I had this urge to understand what was happening and why.

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