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I know this might not be what everyone's talking about about I just want to say that the last bit was Stoick and Valka and then the bit with the music in the background at the end made me shed a happy tear XD
I wonder if that program is exclusive to Dreamworks? It would be fun as a school project to do a 10 second animation XD
The new software clip
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 06:12
by Zer0x
Which software clip do you talking about? There are some.
And if you speak about PREMO, yes, it is developed by DW and I don't think that they will sell it. HTTYD2 is the first movie in which they used PREMO.
The new software clip
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 07:31
by puxlit
Do you mean this video?
Spoiler: click to toggle
From what I've read, they might look into commercialising Premo. I'll see if I can dig up the article in question.
Edit: found it.
[Bloomberg News
How Dreamworks Draws 'Dragon 2' Faster, Better,(time=1403522009)]
Jon Erlichman (Bloomberg): And along with using Apollo on future films, DreamWorks may make the technology available to other industries.
Lincoln Wallen (DWA CTO): Other business sectors also create images for various purposes. They also design product [sic] in a visual way, and all of those processes really are enhanced and sped up by Apollo.
The new software clip
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 09:42
by BerserkDragon
Premo? Isn't it called Apollo?
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Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 09:46
by mr.k.c.w.
BerserkDragon
12 Jul 2014, 13:42
Premo? Isn't it called Apollo?
Premo is the animation software. Apollo is that name for the entire animation software suite that includes Premo.
The new software clip
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 09:49
by Zer0x
That's why I asked which software clip you meant.
Apollo is the complete toolset, which includes PREMO, TORCH, a new openVDB integration for Houdini and probably some more.
Edit: Looks like someone was faster.
The new software clip
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 10:42
by mr.k.c.w.
Yay for my quick wits!
In all seriousness though, I would gladly let DreamWorks take my money(if I have any to begin with) to let me have the software set. I bet that if they ever made Apollo commercially avaliable, it would cost at least between 1000 USD to 2000 USD. Because from what I can tell, they definitely spent a lot into creating the softwares. And judging from how much a set of Adobe Flash would cost by itself, it’s to safe to say that Apollo may cost above 2000 USD if it is ever commercially avaliable.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 11:44
by Zer0x
Such specific software costs mostly much more and is normally not available for consumers. because you would also need a super expensive hardware setup. If they will ever sell it, it will be available only for other companies in the first place and we're speaking here about costs of around $100,000 for the licenses.
