I read about that in the book Creativity, Inc. I believe there was a macro built that when run it deleted the drive. Animators were literally watching their characters vanish off the screen while they worked. She was working from home after giving birth and essentially had an offline backup that she used to animate from home. In the end they only lost about 2 weeks worth of work.
The funny thing is they ended up deleting like half the movie again after this anyway because it was rubbish. John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich had to come in and fix the story and all the animators worked round the clock to get the film basically redone in like 12 months. Pretty crazy - full story here for those interested.
SurfinginStyle on April 10th, 2020 at 11:22 UTC »
Wow, really?
frupp110 on April 10th, 2020 at 12:39 UTC »
I read about that in the book Creativity, Inc. I believe there was a macro built that when run it deleted the drive. Animators were literally watching their characters vanish off the screen while they worked. She was working from home after giving birth and essentially had an offline backup that she used to animate from home. In the end they only lost about 2 weeks worth of work.
rusty_bucket_bay on April 10th, 2020 at 12:45 UTC »
The funny thing is they ended up deleting like half the movie again after this anyway because it was rubbish. John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich had to come in and fix the story and all the animators worked round the clock to get the film basically redone in like 12 months. Pretty crazy - full story here for those interested.