Yesterday at the Oscars, The Hurt Locker won best picture and best director. I am sure well deserving, but when it comes to reshaping the future of movie making, one cannot argue with the fact that James Cameron with Avatar will forever change the way movies are made and enjoyed.
Sure, there will always remain a desire for pure movie making: a great script, cinematography, direction, actors, sound and video editing, production. Not everyone enjoys movies of the sci-fi genra…then again who hasn’t seen Avatar? Look at what went into the main visual effects production of Avatar, and the technology deployed by New Zealand’s Weta Digital:
- 10,000 square foot server farm
- 4,000 HP servers
- 35,000 processor cores
- Over 1,000 Terabytes of storage (>1 Petabyte)
- 900 people
Each minute of footage occupied more than 17GB of storage and the sever farm ranked 193 to 197th spots in the world’s top 500 supercomputers, and this is just the main visual effect work. Additional companies like ILM were hired to work on other areas of the movie.
All said, if companies like Seagate, HP. AMD, Intel, and others were part of the Academy…Avatar just may have won best picture.
Keep em coming Mr Cameron.
Check out more details about the making of Avatar here
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