Renderingsoftware that costs several thousand dollars per user just a few years ago can now be had for several hundred dollars, said Digital Domain creative director of software Doug Roble.
Switching to softwarerendering mode in the editing program shows a night-and-day difference: video playback is extremely choppy, and processing moves at a crawl.
The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D softwarerendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.
Adobe's Flash software, the standard for rendering graphics and video online, is taking a p.r. beating by Apple, which refuses to use it in its phones and tablets.