LOL! Well, that's cool.

But what they probably don't tell you is that they're most likely using 3D game engines in making the shorts because teaching kids how to render animation using high end renderers (or even mid-way renderers) would be far beyond the scope of a summer camp training course, and probably not that exciting to the youngsters.

Unless these children are the offspring of NASA's top rocket scientists, I don't think they'll grasp the concepts of Pixar's PRMan, or the art of animating light sets, flicker-free HDRI, GI, caustics, texture baking, DOF, motion blur, compositing, distributed rendering, etc. in a summer camp session. Doing so would probably discourage a young person from pursuing 3D. hehe ;-) However, a GAME engine will keep their interest.

Message edited on: 07/26/2004 22:05

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