In 1998, a single command nearly erased years of work on Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 2’.
An employee working on the film accidentally ran a command that started rapidly deleting the movie’s files from the company servers.
Within seconds, about 90% of the animated film was gone. The team watched in horror as character models, environments, and entire scenes vanished.
The real panic set in when they discovered their routine data backups had also been failing for the past month. There was no recent official copy to restore from.
Just when it seemed like the entire multi-million dollar project was lost, a small bit of hope appeared from an unexpected place.
Galyn Susman, the film’s supervising technical director, had recently had a baby and was working from home part-time.
To do her work, she had a copy of the entire film on her personal computer at her house. The team wrapped her computer in blankets, drove it carefully back to the studio, and began the recovery.
Her backup, while not perfect, was enough to restore almost everything that had been lost, saving the movie from being completely restarted.
Sources: Ed Catmull’s ‘Creativity, Inc.’, The Verge, Wikipedia#Pixar #ToyStory2#DataRecovery
Any sane 3D artist saves all their wireframes, meshes, textures, cloth and physics animations to separate files, which have to be RENDERED out into one single package.
A big studio like PIXAR 120% utilizes a very strict backup schedule using multiple file servers for short term storage and magnetic tape drives for long term storage. This part is bullshit pro max.
There is strictly no leaving the production floor with unreleased material in the 3D industry. More epic bullshiting.
More bullshit.
Stop bullshitting me.
NB: How can you be so daft and still use a picture of Mayuri? You aren’t even a captain class opponent smh.
The first two words are literally, “In 1998”. Just because you can use openai now doesn’t make you the computer genius you think you are fool.
Your single digit IQ can’t even read and understand that I have left sources of the article.
