CompuServe Messages

At NCGA, John Berton of ILM gave an excellent presentation on the computer animation of T2. Like Gary mentioned, Raytracing was out of the question due to time constraints. Instead, they made good use of environment maps. Although, they did take it a step further and use custom environment maps that had anywhere from 6 to 9 sides. These custom maps allowed them to add the "Artistic" effects, like the reflection of the helicopter pilots face on the T2000. No offense, but how did you think they did those shots? With a raytracer hooked up to a real-time 3D Scanner? 😎 -MM