Dell Helps Power Visual Effects in Oscar®-Nominated Films
25 2월 2013 - 11:30PM
Business Wire
Dell media and entertainment solutions helped power
award-winning visual effects (VFX) shots in several films up for an
Oscar last night at the 85th Annual Academy Awards®.
Dell’s end-to-end highest performance technology helped Dell VFX
customers, Pixomondo and Important Looking Pirates (ILP), deliver
projects and execute against creative visions quickly and
efficiently for the films “Snow White and the Huntsman,” nominated for an Oscar for Visual Effects and
“Kon-Tiki,” nominated for an Oscar for Foreign Language Film,
respectively. Dell Precision workstations also helped Tippett
Studio bring “Ted” back to life to present the Oscars for Sound
Mixing and Sound Editing alongside Mark Wahlberg.
“We are beyond proud that many of our customers were nominated
and recognized for their great work at the Academy Awards® last
night,” said Neil Hand, VP, Tablet and Performance PCs, Dell.
“Dell’s goal is to provide our customers with reliable, secure and
high-performance technology so they can focus on their creative
workflows, key to being competitive in the entertainment industry,
and spend less time worrying about IT.”
Pixomondo, an international VFX studio and longstanding Dell
customer and partner, was enlisted as one of the VFX vendors on
“Snow White and the Huntsman,” a UK-American fantasy film based on
the German fairy tale "Snow White.” Pixomondo managed 261
character, environment and action shots in the movie and helped the
film’s supervisors realize the design and style of many of the
shots.
“Every show comes with its own unique set of creative and
technical challenges. On ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ we developed
methodologies to share data between multiple software packages, at
times with artists in different offices working together on the
same shot,” said Andrew Roberts, Digital Effects Supervisor,
Pixomondo. “The demand to turn around high quality shots in a short
timeframe is always present, Dell Precision workstations and Dell
PowerEdge servers supported us every step of the way.”
The film was an around-the-clock global effort by more than 200
artists across six of Pixomondo’s offices. Artists in Los Angeles,
Burbank, Berlin and Toronto all worked on the opening battle
sequence with each office focused on different shots, including the
massive army, shattering soldiers, character animation and fire and
smoke simulation. The work on the “storming the beach” sequence was
also spread across several offices with Berlin artists creating
volleys of fireballs, Beijing team members developing the crowd
duplication and arrow shots and the Los Angeles office working on
the development of digital soldiers on horseback. Additionally,
Toronto artists delivered the dwarves and fire in the forest attack
sequence and Shanghai helped the character, William, raid the
wagon.
Pixomondo credits efficient, reliable and global IT
infrastructure backed by 24/7 support from Dell in helping this
dispersed team collaborate, render and share assets across offices
at all times of day all over the world. The studio needed hardware
they could rely on and that would scale with them. Dell systems
allowed the artists to efficiently deliver the scope of
high-quality work on time. The studio used a complete end-to-end
Dell solution including Dell Precision T5500 tower workstations
paired with high-end dual-Dell UltraSharp U2410 and Dell ST2420L
monitors, Dell PowerEdge R510, R410, R310 and R200 servers, and
Dell Networking 6248 switches to simulate, animate, render and view
its work on the film.
This combination of Dell technology, services and solutions
allowed Pixomondo to focus more time on creativity and workflows to
overcome challenging shots and sequences. For instance, Pixomondo
successfully delivered very complex shots where knights crumbled
into tens of thousands of obsidian fragments by developing a custom
dynamics system. The proprietary system gives physically accurate
simulations while still maintaining artistic control over the look
of each fragment and the progression of the overall shatter effect
itself. To achieve this, Pixomondo utilized Dell solutions in
offices around the world to share matchmove, animation, effects and
lighting work; “something we’re very proud of and so were Universal
and director Rupert Sanders,” said Roberts.
Another Dell customer who made an appearance at the Academy
Awards last night was Important Looking Pirates (ILP) for their
work on “Kon-Tiki,” nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. ILP
delivered 62 VFX shots for a very challenging raft and white shark
scene. To achieve the precise, true-to-life image color required
for their work, and experience consistency across their entire
monitor fleet, ILP relied on Dell UltraSharp U2711 monitors with
PremierColor and have deployed them across the company.
“We were experiencing issues with a previous brand and switched
to Dell UltraSharp due to its size, resolution and the
image quality,” said Niklas Jacobson, VFX supervisor at ILP.
“We have been very pleased with the reliability of the monitors and
we plan to expand our Dell technology infrastructure and investment
as the increasing demands of our industry produce requirements that
we believe can be met by Dell solutions.”
Additional Information:
- Dell's Tech Page One: Q&A with
Tippett Studio
- Dell Precision
- Dell PowerEdge
- Dell UltraSharp
- Dell Telecommunications, Media &
Entertainment
- Dell on Twitter
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