Final Fantasy movie in XSI?

[bgg1]

I have seen in the xsination site that

[blk]

i dont know possible both but maya is deffinetely being used Square is a giant maya house and they are useing Renderman to render it thats for sure

[polyman13b]

I have been told by the higher ups that the Final Fantasy movie is definitely done with a softimage product of some sort, I couldn't squeeze out of them wether it was 3D or XSI but it is one of the two. Since it is being a Soft prog the renderer most likely to be Mental Ray, which is superior to Renderman anyways.

[alper455]

this is maybe the realtime sequences, some hidef sequences
were made in a french compagnie and it was in maya ,also
square is using maya and renderman

[shanesternstein]

"Since it is being a Soft prog the renderer most likely to be Mental Ray, which is superior to Renderman anyways."

You seriously must be mistaken here.

Square definately use Renderman as their renderer of choice. Simply because it's not a raytracer and you have the most control over shaders and rendering parameters. Raytracers are phenominally slow for big scenes and Mental Ray in particular has to tessellate all geometry whereas Renderman can render Patches as patches and absolutely smooth Sub-Ds in record times.

I really won't go into how much better Renderman is for large projects (such as a movie). Sure you can't do raytraced reflections, but you can use env maps or just use frankenrender to connect the rendering pipeline to BMRT.

Easy done!

-Vijay

PS: I've seen several posts of technical directors from Square posting items on renderman newsgroups too.

[ozz-2005]

its done in maya.
explore the xsistation website..and youll find an interview with one of the people that works/ed on the movie ...he says that its done in maya

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[fredc]

From what I have heard Final Fantasy is using Maya for the core product. However they have 20 full time software scientists working on it, so the amount of custom code is enormous.

FYI: As for Mental Ray in large productions. Centropolis used MR to render Godzilla, and lets not forget the Fightclub. Regardless, I agree Renderman is certainly king. However, it is not really much of an option unless you have a dedicated development staff. MentalRay lets anyone do world class projects right out of the box.

Urp

[stormtroopar]

Its definitely done with Maya and Renderman, with a lot of cusom Mel scripts and some proprietory software. Believe it or not, but a few of the shots are also rendered with the Maya renderer.