I'd like to share my memorable moment of last week when I watch "Better Man", The Robbie Williams biopic.
Worked 1996 for a Berlin based company named Mental Images, creator of the 3d render engine Mental Ray. We had developed the first volumetric fur shaders and I tested it in a short movie featuring a gorilla as main actor. Sorry for the poor copy but that’s what I got out from an old VHS tape.
Nearly 30 years later I'm watching Robbie as an ape shaving his skull. The fur drops to the floor together with my jaw. And yet I feel some pride of being there when this massive development began.


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