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Pixar's Render Farm

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382 points brundolf | 2 comments | 02 Jan 21 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.496s | source
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shadowofneptune ◴[02 Jan 21 20:02 UTC] No.25615950[source]▶
It's good to know they care about optimization. I had the assumption that all CGI is a rather wasteful practice where you just throw more hardware at the problem.
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1. dagmx ◴[02 Jan 21 20:34 UTC] No.25616237[source]▶
CGI is heavily about optimization. I recommend checking out SIGGRAPH ACM papers , and there's a great collection by them on production renderers.

Every second spent rendering or processing, is time an artist is not working on a shot. Any savings in optimizations add up to incredible cost savings.

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2. Narann ◴[03 Jan 21 16:32 UTC] No.25622757[source]▶
About this: One SIGGRAPH focused was about Multithreading for VFX. The result was so valuable they made a book.

I reviewed this book (2014): https://www.fevrierdorian.com/blog/post/2014/08/24/Multithre...