High Performance Software Design at DreamWorks Animation

The artists who create movies at DreamWorks Animation are always pushing the limits of technology in their efforts to create more immersive experiences. This requires software developers to create tools that can extract the maximum performance from the available hardware. New tools are under development that are extensively multithreaded to take advantage of all available machine resources. This presentation describes the motivations and approaches to writing a new animation tool, as well as the problems that have been encountered and the solutions adopted.

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