Реферирование. Культура речевого общения

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52961679

When working from home is much more than emailing

By Nell Mackenzie

Business reporter

26 June 2020

Ere Santos remmbers that he once had to animate a fight between his character, the sidekick, and the hero of the film.

The sidekick lands on the hero's head, and the scene cuts. Luckily, the hero's animator sat next to Mr Santos.Much like their creations, the two colleagues went to battle on how the interaction should work.Instead of drawing, these feature film animators create computer simulations based on physics.Mr Santos likens it to making a puppet that the computer will bring to life.

Trouble ensues if the build is even fractionally inaccurate, because the puppets will slice through their world like a ghost, rather than a real being."You can have a hand going through a table, or through another hand if they are clapping," says Mr Santos.Eventually, he and his neighbour ironed out their characters' skirmish.Huge data files were shared between them, three to four times a day, but being able to look over his colleague's shoulder and to check his computer screen was indispensable.Now Mr Santos is working on another movie, but this time alone, from his London flat.

The cartoon has been divided by scene rather than character and distributed to the 100 or so illustrators working together on the feature film animated by Jellyfish Pictures.So will animated characters drawn during lockdown touch each other less?Mr Santos jokes: "I hope so. I mean, anytime you have characters not touching each other in animation is great. Characters interacting with each other - yeah. It's just a world of like, 'Oh no.'"

However, the team has still maintained its connection despite their physical separation.Continually in touch, they take notes from their directors at Jellyfish and their Los Angeles-based movie studio, DreamWorks."It's an interesting challenge that nobody's ever had to make a movie outside of the office. So it's really cool and exciting, but also terrifying because you don't want to mess up," says Mr Santos.

The interplay between Mr Santos, his colleagues and the movie studio is made possible by cloud computing. That's where a company decides not to process and store all of its data in its own offices. Instead it hires another firm to store the data, which it can access over the internet.

The technology has been around for almost 10 years.But since Covid-19 put the world on lockdown, a wave of new firms have rushed to adopt cloud computing.And within cloud computing a micro-industry, known as enterprise infrastructure, has bloomed.

In the article " WHEN WORKING FROM HOME IS MUCH MORE THAN EMAILING" the author Nell Mackenzie, a business reporter, mainly discusses the situation with the movie studio working outside the office during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The author makes a clear comparison of the company's activity by telling that despite it was previously possible to work side by side now the creators are working from home alone.

However, the author points out that despite their physical separation the team is still staying in connection.

And while the creators are directed by their colleagues from Jellyfish Pictures and a movie studio in Los-Angeles, they are gaining an exciting experience that nobody's ever had to make a movie outside the office.

The author concludes by saying that this interplay is made possible through cloud computing as the kind of technology which many micro-industry firms have recently adopted.