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The techniques gained critical notice in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
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Roy Disney was a great champion of this.
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He spent a lot of money building the CAPS system,
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and it was just the basis of what was to come in terms of the 3-D animation process.
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It was the engine that drove everything else forward.
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Pixar's software, Renderman, was also getting industry acclaim
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for the creation of photo-realistic special effects
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that allowed Hollywood filmmakers to tell stories
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that could not be told any other way.
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Renderman had become the new standard in special effects,
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and in 2000, the technical team garnered the first Oscar ever awarded
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for computer-animated software.