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Article: Bad blood behindthe scenes.(News)
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- Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2007
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Behind a maze of
plyboard partitions, dozens of animators are sitting in semi-darkness, a small army of mouse-clicking troglodytes. All young looking, most have impressive strings of letters after their names: PhDs in biodynamics, volumetric rendering and the Navier-Stokes fluid dynamic equation, that sort of thing. The blinds are kept down because they have to be sure the colours on their computer screens are true.
"We are like moles," says Tim Cheung, the head of animation at the PDI DreamWorks studios, just outside San Francisco. "We have to shield our eyes if we go outside in daylight."
I am spending a day at the studios being shown how the ...