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From: flip@pixar.uucp (Flip Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: state of the business
Keywords: CGI, commercial, animation
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Date: 31 Aug 89 18:13:25 GMT
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In article <540@celia.UUCP> celia!charlie@tis.llnl.gov (Charlie Gibson) writes:
>In article <6492@pixar.UUCP> flip@pixar.uucp (Flip Phillips) writes:
>>In article <115@suntc.UUCP> jh34607@suntc.UUCP (john howell) writes:
[...]
> but I firmly believe that a production 
>company without a significant in-house R&D effort is destined to die.

Yes, this was a major failing of Cranston / Csuri Productions, and
a major gripe of some of the people who worked there. (There were
other circumstances also behind their demise...)

>Animation that requires a lot of human labor per second of film (like 
>character animation) gets expensive.

Way expensive.


Flip Phillips                                        {sun | ucbvax}!pixar!flip
Pixar - Marin County, California