The cost of creating quality film and television content has reduced quite a bit in the last couple of years… check out a look at the costs… although there IS the talent.

Filed under: How-tos, Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, Software

So, you want to start your own animation dynasty like Mr. Jobs? Well Pixar released RenderMan for Maya this week. RenderMan is the magic software developed in-house by Pixar to “draw” the frames of their movies. Having a bad renderer means slowness, and images that just aren’t realistic enough. Maya is an industry-leading modeling and animation tool. Put them together, and you pretty much have the mother of all animation pipelines. Obviously there’s a lot more that you’ll need for all that… But I decided to hop on the Apple store and price a basic…

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