AMD CPUs and GPUs Used to Make ‘Machete’

VFX artists from Troublemaker Studios used high-powered 6-core AMD Opterons and FirePro V8800′s to bring all the post-processing work for Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’, over 500 shots work, in a mere 6 months with 10 artists.

Shots from three different digital camera models, one film camera, camera tracking work using PFTrack, 3D special effects work using Softimage, and compositing work using Nuke, all came together through AMD hardware.

Such added effects include extensive set damage, a huge number of bullet holes, and wide-ranging set extensions. AMD hardware also played a part in sophisticated particle simulations helped more accurately render realistic blood spatters that interact with each other, the actors and objects in the environment.

via AMD CPUs and GPUs Used to Make ‘Machete’.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .