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by jasonwatkinspdx 1741 days ago
As another comment pointed out: Toy Story was re-rendered at great effort for 3D. That's the exception not the norm. They didn't feel it was worth it to do it yet again for the 4K version which is simply upscaled.

It is in no way a "download the archive and type make again" sort of situation. It's a huge effort.
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pwdisswordfish8 1741 days ago
Toy Story was not "re-rendered at great effort for 3D". It was converted to 3D. Obviously, this takes a lot of effort.

It's not obvious whether any of the comments here that "they didn't feel it was worth it" are actually informed, or that's synthesis (guessing).

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ubercow13 1741 days ago
Are your comments actually informed or are they just synthesis (guessing)?

> “We had to have some very, very smart people at Pixar go back in and write some software and figure out a way to make it so that those files would render on our current computers,” he said.

>It took four months to resurrect the old data and get it in working order. Then, adding 3-D to each of the films took six months per film.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/movies/04murp.html

Sounds like getting the render to work was about as much effort as converting to 3D.

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