For Rex Grignon of DreamWorks Animations, creating an engaging scene begins with an idea. Add relentless drive and some of the right tools — and you just might be able to put a polka dot afro on a zebra.
Enter the HP Z Workstation, which helps Rex and his animation team design, revise and render character expressions faster than ever. The workstation allows for increased performance and creativity — from executing more iterations in less time on the desktop to working on larger, more complex scenes (like Madagascar 3's "Polka dot Afro") in the cloud. And high-speed multi-core processing, memory, and option drives enable animators to effectively work on multiple shots simultaneously in a far more interactive environment.
"It's not as easy as you'd think getting a zebra to dance," said Grignon. "Making a movie like Madagascar 3 requires enormous amounts of collaboration between artists and technologists. Once the directors and producers explain their vision to me.... My job is to figure out how to turn all that creative ambition into the coolest animation audiences have ever seen."
Seeing the possibilities. To Rex Grignon, it matters.
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