It was a very entertaining Grim Reaper. You wouldn’t think the Grim Reaper would be skipping stones with pirate booty coins.
It’s amazing (to me) what animation can do with a computer, instead of the old way of drawing frame by frame.
I’ve a friend who works at Pixar, and a neighbor who hired in there from another, smaller firm. Went to an afternoon presentation featuring some guys from Industrial Light and Magic talking about computer-generated effects.
The big secret?
Eigenvectors.
Yup. Eigenvectors.
Oh, yes — and quaternions, too.
And a whole slew of other heady mathematics.
You want to become a demigod of 3D animation?
Aside from popping out of the womb with mad artistic imagination, you’d better be a double major with computer science and mathematics on your C.V.
I like that the Grim Reaper used a wrist-hourglass. Only Death could make that work.