[TommyBoy]

So this is just a thread for discussion (most likely). I'm sure many of us know that Walt Disney Feature Animation used to use Silicon Graphics machines to ink and paint their traditionally animated films. For those of you who don't know about this, Disney embarked on their switch to digital artwork in 1988 when they teamed up with the newly formed Pixar Animation Studios to produce a software package that could replace the long and cumbersome process of manually transferring pencil sketches to cels for coloring. The software that came from that was known as CAPS. CAPS could do ink/paint work, mix 2D and 3D animation (as seen in the dance scene of Beauty and the Beast), and organize the incredible amount of image files that were required to make a feature film. It was a very revolutionary piece of software for the late 1980s and early 1990s. CAPS was used for every Disney film from 1989's The Little Mermaid to 2004's Home on the Range. Pretty amazing.

Enough chatter... The reason why I posted this thread is because I've wondered if we have anybody on here who worked at Disney during those years and used the CAPS system. If so, please share some of your memories. Also... I know it was proprietary software that was never distributed, but does anybody know if CAPS was ever leaked? Did any of you happen to receive a copy of it that is still laying around somewhere? I'm sure that everyone in this small SGI hobbyist community would love to get their hands on that. Please post any info about CAPS on this thread!