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 BlueArc Supports Visual Effects in "Clash of the Titans" -- paraphrased -- Cinesite is currently working on the following forthcoming releases, "Marmaduke" (Fox), "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (Fox/Walden) and "John Carter of Mars" (Disney/Pixar), all of which are being produced on the same BlueArc system. "The movie industry continues to have a voracious appetite for digitally created visual effects of ever increasing complexity and realism," said Antony Hunt, managing director of Cinesite. "We identified last year that we would need to increase our storage capacity threefold but did not necessarily want to add to our old cluster and be constrained by the performance of the existing storage nodes on it," he continued. "We were also conscious that certain aspects of our old system were struggling to keep pace with the ever increasing amount of randomly accessed data and needed to be revisited. After initial selection we conducted a series of acceptance tests on BlueArc and other vendors's storage before making our final decision. We spoke with colleagues at other visual effects companies here in London who have BlueArc systems and only heard good things." "The next challenge for us is going to be stereoscopic content. This will see storage requirements double; maybe triple again, along with a corresponding increase in rendering. We feel confident that the BlueArc storage is going to elegantly grow to those levels and not constrain us." Cinesite typically handles up to eight projects at any one time with more than 350 VFX artists concurrently accessing thousands of files with sizes varying from just a few kilobytes to hundreds of gigabytes, frequently in unpredictable sequential and random patterns, placing enormous demands on throughput and I/O performance. "BlueArc impressed us by just being installed and working without the need to tweak it. We're generally suspicious of things that do not work out of the box as they invariably bite you after what appears to be a trivial change to the workflow," added Hunt. Mercury virtualized storage pool allows Cinesite to seamlessly manage 130 terabytes of tiered SAS and SATA disk capacity. With one of the largest and most comprehensive facilities in Europe, Cinesite's visual effects team has the capacity and creativity to produce all manner of effects, both digital and physical, for feature films and broadcast projects of all scales. Their award-winning team of highly talented visual effects artists take filmmakers' ideas and turn them into spectacular cinematic reality. Cinesite is currently working on Harry Potter -- The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros.), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Disney), Marmaduke (Fox), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Fox/Walden), John Carter of Mars (Disney/Pixar) and Battle: Los Angeles (Sony/Columbia). For more information, visit www.cinesite.com. |
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A TARS TARKAS This is just too cool! This creativity piece of work was made by Khanada Taylor, webmaster for www.jamespurefoy.us RARE DISNEY MARS & BEYOND ANIMATED SERIES
What the?!?! Yeah, that's what I said too when I saw this... this is a Banth from Disney's 1957 space series, Mars and Beyond. Click the photo above to view the clip. This hysterically funny video mentions Barsoom in pretty good detail at around 2:44 in the timeline. Check it out! |
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