Tears of Steel and the Open-Source VFX Pipeline
A short film about robots in Amsterdam doubled as a stress test for free visual effects tools.
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A short film about robots in Amsterdam doubled as a stress test for free visual effects tools.
How far can you squeeze a cartoon rabbit before the fur turns to mush?
Thousands of frames, hundreds of borrowed machines and one very patient scheduler.
When we get it wrong, we say so, fix it and show what changed.
The cameras came down. The data sharing agreements did not.
Kettles, radios and the volunteers who refuse to let anything go to landfill.