On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Wayne Eddy wrote:
> Hi, KZK, everyone, > > Just because animation is so labour intensive now, doesn't mean that it > will be in 5 or 10 or 15 years time. In fact it almost certainly won't > be. To say that a dedicated professional studio will always be > necessary to produce a quality animated features fails to take into > account the current rate of technological progess. Eventually expert > systems will enable a single person to do the work of a team, and not > long after that AI's will be capable of reading a script and then > generating a feature film without any human input. Just seeing what the time decrease has been in 3 years for static digital art, I believe you. Your timeline may not be quite right, but Moore's Law plus software improvements plus more software specially written for the purpose will lead there. Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l