Madagascar Animation Movie Pushes Hairy Tech Limits
Filed in: Technology — May 24th, 2005
The new film “Madagascar,” DreamWorks Animation’s animated follow-on to the smash hit “Shrek 2,” could be described as a hairy technology challenge played out onscreen.
With a cast of zoo animals and hundreds of furry lemurs on the film’s namesake island, the animators had to push the limits of technology to render an eye-catching yet believable effect. Every hair on every animal represented a line of computer code, for a countless number of algorithms that had to be compressed and rendered overnight to create the images in just one scene.
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Madagascar Powered by What CPU?
Star Wars Episode III is powered by AMD, therefore, I wonder what powered Madagascar film? After some search, I found it. It is AMD, again!
Thought:
Every hair on every animal represented a line of computer code, for a countless number of algorithms that had to be compressed and rendered overnight to create the images in just one scene.
Just for this, I must watch the movie! I want to experience the latest 3D technology in hair!
Years before, there is no hair in animation movie. If I remember correctly, Final Fantasy – The Spirits Within is the first animation movie with hairs.
Never realize “hair” is so complex huh? 
