Of Giants and Windmills...
The tech behind the technique...
Just a little bit more...
It’s not until we started to compile this list of equipment that it became apparent just how much we’d used. All animation, film editing and textures were dragged out of my ageing laptop. The bulk of final renders came out of a Mini Mac and audio generated and edited with Garageband and Logic Audio on a G5.
Maxon (Cinema 4D, Sketch and Toon, 3D Body Paint)
My favourite animation and modelling tool of choice is the rather excellent Cinema 4DXL
With the exception of the backgrounds and some of the visual effects, the visuals were all generated through Cinema 4DXL
Adobe Photoshop/Premiere
Pencil backgrounds were coloured and layered up in an ageing (though still solid) v7 of Photoshop
The freebie version of Premiere (standard) bundled with my laptop provides the video editing
SONY VAIO laptop
All the modelling, animation and textures for the film have been created on my VAIO laptop.
Despite being thrashed mercilessly, it continues to deliver with only occasional niggles.
Apple (Mac Mini, G5(PP), Garageband, Logic Audio, iWeb, iTunes, Quicktime)
Our original estimations on render time were horrific – potentially months of time to generate the high-res files were a bit of a shock. Thank goodness we were wrong.
More window box than render farm, the Mini Mac has far exceeded our expectations. Using a separate machine for rendering has also left me free to concentrate on animation rather than losing time during rendering.
WACOM tablets
Western Digital external hard drives
Lacie external hard drives
