BANGALORE: When George Lucas set about creating his masterpiece ‘Star Wars, Episode I’ , it was the animation bit which started playing party-pooper. The excited cinema crew working on the animation matrix, was riddled with a problem — the speed of file transfer. Animation files are heavy computing files which store packages of information. When these files get transferred from the work stations to the servers for storage, it slows down the system.
Quite a challenging task indeed for the crew which had deadlines to meet and worser still, frustrations to fight over the long delays in working on slow computers. It was around this time that word got around that a new series of switches and networking solutions were being designed by a local ‘guy’ which could solve this problem. George Lucas immediately contacted Earl Ferguson , who said that he had just the right solution to this problem. Loading a complete networking package into the boot of his car, he reached the site location.
He personally connected all the switches and routers, going under the tables, scrambling on dusty floors to get the network in shape. The result was amazing. Artists, who hitherto had to battle with slow computing speeds, could work at remarkable speeds making their job a lot easier.
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Digital animation takes a giant leap with good networking
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