[dvt]

> I can't imagine the artist actually had to wait two weeks to render his product -- what am I missing?

You're not missing anything :) I worked briefly in the special effects industry[0] and it takes a long time to render stuff. Monsters University took 29 hours to render a frame[1] and they had a whole server farm.

[0] There's an old joke that everyone in LA works in the 'biz' at least once.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/24/the-making-of-pixars-lates...

[ChicagoBoy11]

Wait so 29hrs GIVEN the server farm or 29hrs of computing time, thus requiring a server farm? Can't be the former... right? Wouldn't that mean decades of computing to render it?

And that was part of my question too: Given the rendering time faced by dono, would someone like he have access to technology to distribute this over a few machines/in the cloud or is that something that just big studios have the capacity to do?

[asperous]

1 frame takes 29 hours but they render frames concurrently (so the whole thing only takes a couple months).

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20080215205807/http://www.pixar....

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