what did smith showcase about the superman returns sequel?
Smith also outlined most of the basic steps in 3D animation, modelling, texture, animation, lighting and rendering. There were murmurs of amazement when he compared the two Transformer movies, saying that while the first movie took 20 terabytes of disc space the sequel took 145 terabytes. That would take 35,000 DVDs to store. Smith used images of popular Transformers characters in his presentation to good effect, but it was the footage from Superman Returns which he used to illustrate the difference between storyboards (where the images and corresponding dialogue of a story are presented before approval of production) and previsualisation (an animated version of the storyboard process) which really impressed participants in the workshop. Notes at the bottom of the screen emphasised just how many changes needed to be made to scenes to get them ready for production. And there is the human production as well, Smith saying that in the UK animation is a micro-enterprise with fewer than 10 p
