Wow. The guy that wrote this is “as stupid as Susan Sarandon“
Pretty much everything he says or quotes anybody else as having said is
RONG.
Apparently the author here thinks that DVD is HD. The only word for that is
“bullshit“ DVD video is SD. period. The VFX work was rendered to the same
NTSC SD Sony laser disc recorders I used. They store at 640 x 480 or 720 x
480 and you can do the anamorphic trick to go to 853 x 480 although that’s
just stretching the image not actually adding more resolution. Our
computer files were 720 x 540 or 853 x 540 and got squished down when laid
off to the disc.
I don’t even understand what they think they’d be accomplishing by
re-rendering. They’d just be rendering the same stuff. You can’t just push
a magic button and say “render bigger” – we hear that all the time about
the Star Trek the motion picture special edition. You aren’t re-rendering,
you’re re-creating. The models have to have more polygons. The textures
have to have more pixels. And of course people should get paid for
re-rendering. I have no idea why the masses seem to think that should be
free.
Also, and it can’t be said enough times, Lightwave sucks.
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“The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it’s still on my list.”