Walt Disney purchases more than 500 SGI Octane Visual WorkstationsAmsterdam 07 September 2000 Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) did buy more than 500 Silicon Graphics visual workstations. The purchase, announced at IBC 2000 in Amsterdam, gives WDFA powerful new computing power. Most recently, Disney used a full range of SGI workstations and servers to create digital characters and special effects for such visually driven feature films as Gone in 60 Seconds, Mission to Mars and Dinosaur as well as the upcoming 102 Dalmatians.
The Silicon
Graphics Octane2 brings together a most robust implementation of SGI
VPro graphics, an optimised crossbar architecture, the latest
high-performance MIPS RISC processor, and multiple industry-first features
for power users in technical and creative professions. Disney is providing
these workstations to its entire digital content creation team, who will use
the workstations for 3D modeling, painting and animation on upcoming feature
films.
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