I love Sci-fi action flicks as much as the next person, but I'll have to admit that I really have somewhat of a sweet-spot for anything related to the Alien/Predator universes. For this reason, I'm really looking forward to the release of the next movie in the Predator series, called “Predators”, which is set to hit cinemas around the world in the immediate future.

For those (presumably few) of you who haven't yet watched any of the trailers, here's a very quick heads-up. Produced by the famous film maker Robert Rodriquez, “Predators” stars Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody in tale about a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet…as prey.

But the movie itself is not exactly the subject of this article. No, in fact, what we'll talk about as follows is the technology that made it all possible, which is provided entirely by AMD. In fact, according to AMD, Robert Rodriguez' team from Troublemaker Studios used some pretty advanced hardware for the movie shooting process, the backbone of the entire system being the AMD/ATI's ATI FirePro V8800 GPU, which sports 1600 Stream processors with a total 147.2 GB/s memory bandwidth and 2GB GDDR5 memory, thus being able to drive up to 4 independent 30-inch displays for a grand total of around 16.4 million pixels.

In fact, the solution developed using AMD tech is so advanced that it allows for the almost real-life rendering of effects and background images, something that can prove to be extremely useful in providing the director with an easier way to actually tap his creative drive. Also, using this technology allows for the easier saving of the so-called “digital assets”, which can be later used for other purposes (for example, a certain scene from the movie can be later used, in its entirety, within an associated PC game, just to give a quick example).

In addition to “Predators”, film maker Robert Rodriguez has looked to AMD technology to create six of his movies, including “Shorts”, “Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams”, “Spy Kids 3D: Game Over”, “Planet Terror”, and “Sin City”.

“With the AMD platforms, my creative team has the freedom to quickly design and animate all the required concepts and designs,” said Robert Rodriguez, Troublemaker Studios. “AMD’s complete platform solutions helps us to turn our visions into reality – we can easily and quickly manipulate images or scenes without the waiting process previously associated with computer technology.”

Naturally, all I can say right now is that I'm really looking forward to the movie's arrival in theaters, in order to see for real what Troublemaker Studios has managed to achieve using AMD tech.  


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