Phew, in 1994 I remember feeling lucky to use a color Mac at school. 64MB RAM though! Wow.
The antialiased 20-megapixel version is so great to see as well. So many of these crops would make neat little sectional wallpapers even.
The story reminded me...back in 2006 I was hired to do some 3D illustration work for my municipality. I believe I got those renders up to 25 megapixels in the end, after a FOSS developer friend wrote a rendering plugin that leveraged the disk and not just RAM (thanks Nik!).
The final poster print is still on my wall to this day, but it was much, much more fun to scroll around the imagery on the computer and view all the little details. I hid some easter eggs in there that are still fun to mention to people.
Mentioning megapixels, on the other hand, mattered to precisely nobody back then, at least nobody who worked on the project. In fact I still had print designers "confirming the DPI of the artwork you sent" long after we had agreed on the necessary pixel resolution for the digital art. Funny times.
(There was more, too...megapixels didn't matter, ambient occlusion didn't matter, raytraced roughness and soft shadows didn't matter, lighting rigs didn't matter, custom hand-designed procedural textures didn't matter. Ugh! The frustration of learning the special aspects of some exciting new interest, and then only being able to type excitedly about it online in niche forums...)
I gotta say I really love, in this particular F40 illustration, the way the specular reflections in the mirrors would seem to indicate that the car is resting on a cloud, high in the sky...
> System 7.5 and 64MB RAM
Phew, in 1994 I remember feeling lucky to use a color Mac at school. 64MB RAM though! Wow.
The antialiased 20-megapixel version is so great to see as well. So many of these crops would make neat little sectional wallpapers even.
The story reminded me...back in 2006 I was hired to do some 3D illustration work for my municipality. I believe I got those renders up to 25 megapixels in the end, after a FOSS developer friend wrote a rendering plugin that leveraged the disk and not just RAM (thanks Nik!).
The final poster print is still on my wall to this day, but it was much, much more fun to scroll around the imagery on the computer and view all the little details. I hid some easter eggs in there that are still fun to mention to people.
Mentioning megapixels, on the other hand, mattered to precisely nobody back then, at least nobody who worked on the project. In fact I still had print designers "confirming the DPI of the artwork you sent" long after we had agreed on the necessary pixel resolution for the digital art. Funny times.
(There was more, too...megapixels didn't matter, ambient occlusion didn't matter, raytraced roughness and soft shadows didn't matter, lighting rigs didn't matter, custom hand-designed procedural textures didn't matter. Ugh! The frustration of learning the special aspects of some exciting new interest, and then only being able to type excitedly about it online in niche forums...)
I gotta say I really love, in this particular F40 illustration, the way the specular reflections in the mirrors would seem to indicate that the car is resting on a cloud, high in the sky...