Hey, that’s a 20,000 dollar piece of junk there!

At work in my office in 1996, doing 3D animation (painstaking!!) on a 19,500 dollar¹ Silicon Graphics Indy workstation.
Software was another 5,000 bucks. Rendering one SD (video-) frame (2 fields) took at least half an hour. A 30 second animation took a fortnight to render. So, you needed computing power, and thus another 2,500 for an extra “math processor board”. That brought render time down to slightly less than a week.

You’ll now find more processingpower in an iPhone 4…

In twenty years we’ll be laughing again, about what we do now and how much money we we’re willing to invest in technology that will be rendered obsolete in a few years from now. It hurts, but alas, that’s the way of progress.

More about this 100mhz, 32MB museum-piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy

(¹ price in the Netherlands in 1996, approx. twice the US price plus shipment and taxes)

Internship CG Character Animation opportunity available

We offer an internship at the Dream Quest Images, Eindhoven (Netherlands) studio. (www.dqivfx.com)

Check out the DQi recruitment page here: http://dreamquestimages.com/recruitment/

Marvels Film’s VFX shop is now Dream Quest Images

As per september 1st, 2015, the Marvels Film’s visual effects and animation operations will continue (and be revived) under the name Dream Quest Images; which is now a registered trademark of Marvels Media.

We are excited to revive our SFX business under this legendary name, although we want to explicitly state that there is no connection or relationship with the previous owner(s) or facilities that operated under the name “Dream Quest Images” during the 90’s.

We respect the legacy of this memorable studio and will dedicate a page on our website to their legendary history, if the original founders and copyright holders allow us to do so.

More news will follow during the course of September. Meanwhile, there’s our Twitter @ twitter.com/dreamquestvfx and our Facebook page facebook.com/dreamquestimages