Tony De Peltrie 20 years later
February 16th, 2006 by Luc-Eric - Viewed 2592 times - Popularity: 4%
The science program “Découverte” on Radio Canada’’s french network will air a documentary this Sunday, February 19th, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Tony De Peltrie. In addition to receiving many awards, the computer-generated short created by four university students in Montreal led to more CG developements in the snowy city, including the creation of Softimage, in 1986
A 1999 AWN article by former Softimage tech writer Emru has a few more pictures on the subject.
I don”t know exactly what will be in the Découverte documentary, but a couple of my colleagues here at Softimage have been interviewed for it a few months ago.
February 20th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Good grief, I”d forgotten all about Tony. He’’s the one that started off the peg software thing, isn”t he. I remember seeing him at a SIGGRAPH. He was an impressive thing to look at back then.
February 28th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Too bad I missed it. I”ll have to catch the rerun.
Greets to everyone!
March 1st, 2006 at 9:58 am
They spent more time talking about “Adventures in 3D Animation” than about “Tony de Peltrie”. For those who remember “The Boxer” trailer released in 1996, it was AWSOME back then. But since the final result was released in 2005, it was just an average 3D movie, rendered in IMAX stereoscopy, with half the time spent on explaining what is 3D animation.
It’’s a shame, really. That movie would have been a huge hit if the director wouldn”t have spent all that time making changes on background crowd characters.
March 4th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
I´m seeking for “TONY DE PELTRIE” video to download, but its very hard to seek…
can you say any working link to download this short?
thanks in advance.
March 4th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
This is about the closest thing I could find…
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumObjet=15580%26NumPage=292