From the Feb 1999 issue of Computer Graphics…
Friday Flashback #580
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Friday Flashback #579
SOFTIMAGE|3D was an obvious choice to use on ‘Tightrop’. It allowed us to do everything in the same package, from the modeling through to the animation, deformation and rendering in mental ray.
–Daniel Robichaud, Writer/Director, Digital Domain
Friday Flashback #578
“Appleseed” is an amazing 3D live animation created by XSI Toon Shader, which was born in Japan .
The collaboration between Digital Frontier and XSI
presents new possibilities to the Japanese film industry.
A new century of cinema begins now, from Japan to the world.
Original story: Masamune Shirow
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Producer: Fumihiko Sori
Production: Digital Frontier
■ Released nationwide on April 17, 2004 at Toho foreign film theaters
Here’s the user story from softimage.jp (retrieved from the waybackmachine, and google translated to English):
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