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The Pixar team would try to dissuade him by saying that RenderMan was not as easy to use as, say, Excel or Adobe Illustrator.
皮克斯團(tuán)隊(duì)試圖勸阻他，他們認(rèn)為RemkrMan并不像Excel或Adobe Illustrator那樣易于使用。
Then Jobs would go to a whiteboard and show them how to make it simpler and more user-friendly.
這時(shí)，喬布斯就會(huì)走到一塊白板前，告訴他們?nèi)绾伟阉龅酶?jiǎn)單，更便于使用。
"We would be nodding our heads and getting excited and say, 'Yes, yes, this will be great!'" Kerwin recalled.
“我們不禁頻頻點(diǎn)頭，興奮地說(shuō)：‘是的，是的，這樣很棒！’”克爾溫回憶說(shuō)，
"And then he would leave and we would consider it for a moment and then say, 'What the heck was he thinking!'
“等他走了以后，我們又考慮了一會(huì)兒，覺(jué)得‘他想的都是些什么鬼主意！’
He was so weirdly charismatic that you almost had to get deprogrammed after you talked to him."
他身上的奇特魅力實(shí)在是強(qiáng)大，你和他交談之后就幾乎被洗腦了。”
As it turned out, average consumers were not craving expensive software that would let them render realistic images.
后來(lái)事實(shí)證明，普通消費(fèi)者對(duì)于這種能讓他們渲染出逼真圖像的昂貴軟件并無(wú)興趣。
RenderMan didn't take off.
RenderMan沒(méi)有成功進(jìn)入大眾市場(chǎng)。
There was, however, one company that was eager to automate the rendering of animators' drawings into color images for film.
不過(guò)，倒是有一家企業(yè)渴望將動(dòng)畫(huà)師的繪畫(huà)自動(dòng)渲染成彩色圖像用于電影拍攝。
When Roy Disney led a board revolution at the company that his uncle Walt had founded,
羅伊·迪士尼在迪士尼公司發(fā)動(dòng)了一場(chǎng)董事會(huì)革命，他是該公司創(chuàng)始人沃爾特·迪士尼的侄子。
the new CEO, Michael Eisner, asked what role he wanted.
迪士尼公司的新任CEO邁克爾·艾斯納問(wèn)羅伊想要擔(dān)任什么角色，
Disney said that he would like to revive the company's venerable but fading animation department.
羅伊表示他想要重振公司歷史悠久卻日漸衰落的動(dòng)畫(huà)部門。
One of his first initiatives was to look at ways to computerize the process, and Pixar won the contract.
他的首輪舉措之一就是設(shè)法將動(dòng)畫(huà)流程計(jì)算機(jī)化，而皮克斯贏得了迪士尼的這份合同。
It created a package of customized hardware and software known as CAPS, Computer Animation Production System.
皮克斯為迪士尼量身定做了一款軟硬件套裝，名為CAPS,即電腦動(dòng)畫(huà)制作系統(tǒng)。
It was first used in 1988 for the final scene of The Little Mermaid, in which King Triton waves good-bye to Ariel.
1988年，這套設(shè)備首次投入使用，負(fù)責(zé)制作動(dòng)畫(huà)片《小美人魚(yú)》中的最后一幕--國(guó)王特里同揮別愛(ài)麗兒。
Disney bought dozens of Pixar Image Computers as CAPS became an integral part of its production.
在此之后，CAPS就成了迪士尼極為依賴的設(shè)備，迪士尼為此又購(gòu)買了數(shù)十臺(tái)皮克斯圖像電腦。
