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]]> By: Toby http://studium.tobiasdeml.com/2009/08/21/an-inside-look-at-the-making-of-pixars-up-at-gnomon-school/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Toby Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:19:45 +0000 http://studium.tobiasdeml.com/?p=459#comment-63 Wow, that's amazing! Yes, I remember that this was mentioned... ODE. Wow, man, that blows me away that this is open-source! So ... basically, in more detail as far as I remember the presentation, Pixar had a plugin like NED that used another algorythm to include ODE's data in Maya. Due to the massive amount of data tough, this plugin performed very slowly and data was not processed in a efficient manner. That's why one of the effects department people came up with the solution of NED, and as far as I remember, they used a standalone-approach so that the plugin would not slow down the calculations of Maya respectively ODE. Thanks for the input, I'll edit that in the article! Wow, that’s amazing! Yes, I remember that this was mentioned… ODE. Wow, man, that blows me away that this is open-source!

So … basically, in more detail as far as I remember the presentation, Pixar had a plugin like NED that used another algorythm to include ODE’s data in Maya. Due to the massive amount of data tough, this plugin performed very slowly and data was not processed in a efficient manner.
That’s why one of the effects department people came up with the solution of NED, and as far as I remember, they used a standalone-approach so that the plugin would not slow down the calculations of Maya respectively ODE.

Thanks for the input, I’ll edit that in the article!

]]> By: Steven Caron http://studium.tobiasdeml.com/2009/08/21/an-inside-look-at-the-making-of-pixars-up-at-gnomon-school/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Steven Caron Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:27:32 +0000 http://studium.tobiasdeml.com/?p=459#comment-62 In an attempt to demystify the work done by Pixar, NED is just an plugin for Maya that uses the open dynamics engine ( http://www.ode.org/ ) granted the talent at Pixar programmed their own interface to connect Maya to ODE, the techniques/technology that Pixar used isn't out of our reach. In an attempt to demystify the work done by Pixar, NED is just an plugin for Maya that uses the open dynamics engine ( http://www.ode.org/ ) granted the talent at Pixar programmed their own interface to connect Maya to ODE, the techniques/technology that Pixar used isn’t out of our reach.

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