The new kid’s movie “Playmobil: The Secret of Pirate Island” from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment takes the lovable kid’s building block toys and brings them to life in a CG adventure. The animation was done entirely in MachStudio’s StudioGPU and in a new press release they tout the advantages of the real-time aspects of the tool:
“Thanks to MachStudio Pro, we could see when there was too much bloom in one shot or not enough blur in another. We didn’t have to wait 40 minutes to see the glow on a treasure chest full of coins,” said Quinn Tetterton, executive vice president at XLT and creative producer overseeing the project. “It’s a great asset, because you can actually experiment during crunch time and get away with it. We could not have done The Secret of Pirate Island in the limited amount of time we had without MachStudio Pro.”
Extra Large Technology (XLT) did the work, and they too love the time savings:
“MachStudio Pro basically skips the entire software rendering process,” says Zeth Dubois, CG supervisor at XLT. “Normally, lighting and rendering is a torturously long process. In a typical workflow, artists approximate lighting with their desktop software, make low-quality or regional test renders, then cross their fingers and send their files to a render farm, waiting hours or longer to see results.” Dubois continues, “But with MachStudio Pro, artists quickly get the feedback they need to make meaningful creative choices without getting bogged down in trying to figure out the technical issues.”
The the 90-minute film was completed in 18 months, and is available now. See some great pictures of the movie, after the break.
via StudioGPU MachStudio Pro Streamlines Creation of First Playmobil Entertainment DVD for Sony Pictures.
