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Re: Cars...

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Originally Posted by BuddyB309
It seems that every Computer animation movie that comes out the company tries to "show off" a technical part of the movie. For example "Over the Hedge" when crazy with extremely good particle effects. So Dreamworks was saying "look how good we can do particle effects." Pixar was trying to show off how well they can do landscapes and computer generated backgrounds.

hey, yeah. you just hit the nail on the head. It really IS that way. pretty much every 3D movie is a giant showcase for a new feature in programming/animation. Robots had A huge number of reflective surfaces and sparks and odd lighting tricks. Toy Story was one of the first movies to use a translucent shader, with A Bug's Life following it up with Tons of translucents. so yeah, i like to see movies and see all the new goodies they are developing in animation.
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