Final Thoughts from the Digital Drag Race
The work that we have seen from the four talented artists is a testament to their creativity, skill and resourcefulness with the Adobe CS4 suite of products running on a blazing fast Intel Core i7 system. Being under the gun as they were, time was of the essence. The integration between Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects and Premiere is unique to our industry, and when every second counts, you don't want to be stuck going in and out of unrelated applications with vastly different interfaces. I was blown away by the processing speed of the Intel Core i7 based computers and how well they functioned with our software. You really get to see these processors shine on things like lightning fast rendering of some very CPU intensive plug-ins such as the particle and atmospheric glows that are in the videos. And don't forget how crucial fast processing was to rendering the After Effects lighting layers that the artists used throughout their compositions.
Drag Race speed shootouts like this require that ability to render as quickly as one can, so that you can get as many iterations as possible viewed in the course of an hour. In day-to-day work in the real world, jobs don't of course have to be cranked out at this extreme pace, but as deadlines approach, and clients get more demanding, incredible processing power and state of the art software are two things you can't live without.
For more info on Mike Kanfer's credits and awards, check him out on the Internet Movie Database.
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