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Pixar's Render Farm

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382 points brundolf | 1 comments | 02 Jan 21 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.232s | source
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solinent ◴[02 Jan 21 20:45 UTC] No.25616343[source]▶
I've heard rumors that Pixar used to be able to render their movies in real-time :)
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klodolph ◴[02 Jan 21 21:25 UTC] No.25616692[source]▶
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).
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solinent ◴[03 Jan 21 00:00 UTC] No.25617922[source]▶
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.

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1. dagmx ◴[03 Jan 21 04:31 UTC] No.25619469[source]▶
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