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Thats wild Feng. I had never heard of Render Farms.

Incredible how much work went into the scenery. All the light and shadows, tree movements, changing of angles, color, realism, resolution.... Mind blowing..



Bill
 
Lionheart said:
Thats wild Feng. I had never heard of Render Farms.

Incredible how much work went into the scenery. All the light and shadows, tree movements, changing of angles, color, realism, resolution.... Mind blowing..



Bill
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I got this from a story on Pixar from 2003

"Pixar's new RenderFarm, used to create the digital images for each frame of animation in its movies, will consist of 1024 Intel Xeon processors inside of eight new RackSaver BladeRack supercomputing clusters running Pixar's own RenderMan software. The RenderFarm features two terabytes of memory and 60 terabytes of disk space. Each Intel Xeon processor at 2.8 GHz is about five times faster than the older RISC-based processors in Pixar's outgoing RenderFarm. Pixar is using the system for its film, "The Incredibles," scheduled for a 2004 release."

They have probably upgraded since then, but can you imagine the power, wow!
 
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