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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: 0.202s | source
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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[02 Jan 21 21:38 UTC] No.25616778[source]▶
From what I understand they still seem to render at 1080p and then upsample to 4k. Judging by Soul.
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dodobirdlord ◴[02 Jan 21 22:56 UTC] No.25617428[source]▶
That seems extremely unlikely. The Renderman software they use has no issues rendering at 4k.
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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[02 Jan 21 22:59 UTC] No.25617442[source]▶
The 4k streaming copy of the film has stairsteps though. Like it's been upsampled. I'm sure their software can render at 4k but they choose not to for whatever reason.
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mkaic ◴[02 Jan 21 23:17 UTC] No.25617598[source]▶
are you sure that's not just an artifact of it being streamed?
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1. fock ◴[03 Jan 21 10:54 UTC] No.25621016[source]▶
probably. Looking at streaming 4k is just sad, as this is just wasting money (on devices and bandwidth) for marketing having abyssmal quality at 10-20Mbit/s. With a FHD-bluray weighing in at 30-50MBit/s that's nothing to wonder about though I guess..