Word: renderman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...division of Lucasfilm, Steve Jobs bought it out in 1986, renaming it Pixar Animation Studios. Within its first year as a spin-off, Pixar won its first Academy Award nomination for Luxo Jr. Establishing its presence in computer animation and graphics industries, Pixar quickly moved into movies. It's Renderman software created the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and the liquid metal cyborg in Terminator 2. Year after year, Pixar won kudos for its innovations in animation...
Boasting aside, Pixar does seem to be light-years ahead technologically. Pixar's animation software, RenderMan, created the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park as well as the battle droids in the latest Star Wars. Jobs spends more than $5 million a year on computer R. and D., and it shows in TS2--in more realistic skin and fur, more flexible characters, more sophisticated lighting and better depth of field...
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