Next, there’s what we like to call the confluence of industries. Actually, I don’t know that anyone’s ever actually used that term, but that’s what it is. Here in digital internetland, animation is coming at us from all sides. You have the motion picture and television animation stuff – the Methods and Digital Domains of the world. Then there’s game animation, which is a whole different suite of tools, owing to the fact that their animation does more than just play a series of pictures in sequence. So we wrestle with game animation and the tools there, and how they relate to the games we make, and where the game industry is going. Then you have scientific animation packages, mathematical modelling stuff, things like that. And, finally, you have the real world architectural modelling, product design stuff.

All of these schools of animation and suites of tools have something to learn. All of them are applicable to what we do in some way. None of them especially talk to each other. We have to talk to all of them.