AMD Technology Used For Special Effects in Machete Movie

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD today unveiled its close collaboration with Troublemaker Studios to produce the striking visual effects for the action epic Machete, a project for the studio that saw the Troublemaker team finalize more than 500 shots, a personal best made possible with AMD graphics and computing technology. Directed and conceived by Robert Rodriguez (director of Predators, Sin City, and Shorts), and featuring an all-star cast including Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba, Machete is set to revitalize the action genre.

For Machete, Troublemaker Studios made use of a unique mix of high-performance AMD hardware, including AMD FirePro V8800 professional graphics accelerators and six-core AMD Opteron processor-based workstations to produce the film on a compressed schedule. A team of ten artists with a post-production period of only six months accomplished 500 final shots with AMDs platform technology, a personal best for Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios team.

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