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The show offered plenty of rivals for today's most popular information appliance--3Com's Palm III (previously called the PalmPilot), a $350 handheld digital organizer for storing appointments and addresses, jotting down quick memos and sending e-mail messages. Casio, Everex, Philips and Uniden all showed off their...
Another passion around here, of course, is the digital revolution. Recently we sent our technology writer Michael Krantz to be our new San Francisco bureau chief. This week he looks at how computers have transformed movie animation. "The workstations that produce these films are more powerful than those that sent...
One flick of Rick Sayre's keyboard tells you all you need to know about the future of animation. "We start with a pencil and a paintbrush," says Sayre, senior animation scientist for the digital studio Pixar. On his screen is a graceful line-and-pastel drawing of two ants...
Still, traditional cel animation sometimes seems like just one implement in an ever more digital toolbox. Half the shots in DreamWorks' upcoming biblical tale, Prince of Egypt, for instance, were created with special effects. The 7-min. parting-of-the-Red-Sea sequence used (take a deep breath) 10 digital...
The smooth, seamless look, for instance, of Toy Story's indoor scenes and plastic dolls--sorry, "action figures"--counted as dazzling effects in 1995. But before the film was even out, Pixar's digital warriors had moved on to the thornier challenges posed by A Bug's Life. "The more...