What factors are making it possible for an independent studio to tackle a CG feature film?
Gladstone: There are three issues that are allowing this kind of independence: the technology itself, the availability of that technology, and the fact that CG has spread to all ends of the Earth. First, CG has, in some ways, made it easier for people to get involved in animation who may not have been able to do so when the animation had to be traditionally hand-drawn. Second, the technology is cheaper and easier to come by. I remember when Robert Able did “Sexy Robot,” a commercial for American Can that was shown during the Super Bowl broadcast in 1984 and required the use of supercomputers up and down the East Coast just to get the power that today you can probably get on your Mac. The third thing—which relates to the first two—is that you now see people doing animated films and providing sourcing for animated films all over the world. So there are wide-ranging and widely divergent skill sets all across the planet. Davis: The technology gets more and more powerful and less and less e
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