negative1 said:

yes, i know the papers are there..

again, who cares? unless you can understand them, apply them, or deal with them,

it's all eye-candy.......revolutionary? more like evolutionary....not to knock pixars

techniques.......but until there is a huge breakthrough ...this is status quo.....

go to the siggraph conferences if you want to see the real innovations/innovators...

later

-1

But isn't that what it's all about at the end of the day (besides a story)? Making it look better and more realistic, which we simply call "eye candy". If the story is utter crap, it won't matter how good it looks. It's only status quo if every movie uses the same techniques. As long as they continue to push the technology forward, and they seem to be doing just that, then it's not status quo anymore.