By Myrna Tobisoo, June 21, 2006
BOXX Technologies Inc., a developer and manufacturer of workstations and render nodes, announced that Rainmaker, a visual effects (VFX), 3D animation and post-production company, completed a number of VFX elements it produced for "The Da Vinci Code" using 3DBOXX workstations. With an entire hardware pipeline devoted to BOXX workstations, Rainmaker chose BOXX for its superior performance and reliability when running advanced VFX applications.
From Director Ron Howard, Producer Brian Grazer and Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning team of "A Beautiful Mind," and Producer John Calley (the Oscar-nominated "The Remains of the Day"), comes the film version of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, one of the most popular and talked about novels of our time, with a cast headed by two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Sir Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Bettany and Jean Reno
. Produced by Grazer and Calley, "The Da Vinci Code" involves a thrilling murder investigation that unearths the biggest cover-up in human history. Since opening on May 19, 2006, "The Da Vinci Code" has grossed more than $675 million worldwide.
For over four months in late 2005 and early 2006, the Rainmaker team produced the visual effects for the "Saint Sulpice" sequence in "The Da Vinci Code." Because the production was unable to film inside the famous Parisian church, which is a recognizable landmark in Paris, Rainmaker was called on to provide Digital Set Construction for the entire interior. On a huge green screen stage in London, the basics of an aisle, some chairs and a partial altar were built but everything else was reconstructed digitally. Over 40 shots of the church were rendered out in beautiful, virtual realism, and composited with green screen footage from the stage to produce a striking replica of the interior of the church.
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