Pixar's Render Farm

I've heard rumors that Pixar used to be able to render their movies in real-time :)

I'd like to imagine that they use some old movie or short as a benchmark, that'd be neat to see the data on.

From what I understand, this was never the case, and not even close. Toy Story took a ton of compute power to render (at the time), Soul took a ton of compute power to render (at the time).

They render them at a very high resolution, so perhaps the person I heard the rumors from was talking about reducing the resolution to something less than 10k by 10k (or more sometimes, I've been out of the film industry for 8 years).

I shouldn't really say more.

Definitely--lots of old assets are used for testing, I've seen them personally. It's standard practice to keep around old models, scenes, textures, etc.

I'm not sure there are feature films rendered at 10k. At least I can't think of a single studio or project that's that high for anything other than marketing or special projects