Pixar
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On Pixar's How We Do It[^] page (slide 13), they talk about what goes into each frame of a movie. Maybe I'm just being dense, but... Let's assume the average movie is 90 minutes, or 5,400 seconds, long. Each frame is 1/24 of a second, so there are 129,600 frames. If each frame takes about 6 hours to render, that would be 777,600 hours. They undoubtedly have some serious horsepower doing this rendering, so is that 777,600 computer hours?
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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On Pixar's How We Do It[^] page (slide 13), they talk about what goes into each frame of a movie. Maybe I'm just being dense, but... Let's assume the average movie is 90 minutes, or 5,400 seconds, long. Each frame is 1/24 of a second, so there are 129,600 frames. If each frame takes about 6 hours to render, that would be 777,600 hours. They undoubtedly have some serious horsepower doing this rendering, so is that 777,600 computer hours?
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
I am sure that are CPU time measurements. Calculate it into years, then you will see. :) However they must have amazing Pcs. Cheers
You have the thought that modern physics just relay on assumptions, that somehow depends on a smile of a cat, which isn’t there.( Albert Einstein)
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I am sure that are CPU time measurements. Calculate it into years, then you will see. :) However they must have amazing Pcs. Cheers
You have the thought that modern physics just relay on assumptions, that somehow depends on a smile of a cat, which isn’t there.( Albert Einstein)
Fatbuddha 1 wrote:
Calculate it into years, then you will see.
I did, hence the confusion.
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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Fatbuddha 1 wrote:
Calculate it into years, then you will see.
I did, hence the confusion.
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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A very very very big cluster :). And then several of them :). Have a nice weekend cheers
You have the thought that modern physics just relay on assumptions, that somehow depends on a smile of a cat, which isn’t there.( Albert Einstein)
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On Pixar's How We Do It[^] page (slide 13), they talk about what goes into each frame of a movie. Maybe I'm just being dense, but... Let's assume the average movie is 90 minutes, or 5,400 seconds, long. Each frame is 1/24 of a second, so there are 129,600 frames. If each frame takes about 6 hours to render, that would be 777,600 hours. They undoubtedly have some serious horsepower doing this rendering, so is that 777,600 computer hours?
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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On Pixar's How We Do It[^] page (slide 13), they talk about what goes into each frame of a movie. Maybe I'm just being dense, but... Let's assume the average movie is 90 minutes, or 5,400 seconds, long. Each frame is 1/24 of a second, so there are 129,600 frames. If each frame takes about 6 hours to render, that would be 777,600 hours. They undoubtedly have some serious horsepower doing this rendering, so is that 777,600 computer hours?
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
My guess is that you would find they are rendering in layers and then integrating the layers. This would allow them to render smaller areas of a frame in less time. For example, you can render a background once and then render foreground characters that are smaller sections of a frame and thus render in less time, and then integrate them together. I don't think you could do it all this way simply because of how the various parts of a frame may interact, but I think this could get you a better (smaller) time.
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On Pixar's How We Do It[^] page (slide 13), they talk about what goes into each frame of a movie. Maybe I'm just being dense, but... Let's assume the average movie is 90 minutes, or 5,400 seconds, long. Each frame is 1/24 of a second, so there are 129,600 frames. If each frame takes about 6 hours to render, that would be 777,600 hours. They undoubtedly have some serious horsepower doing this rendering, so is that 777,600 computer hours?
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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On Pixar's How We Do It[^] page (slide 13), they talk about what goes into each frame of a movie. Maybe I'm just being dense, but... Let's assume the average movie is 90 minutes, or 5,400 seconds, long. Each frame is 1/24 of a second, so there are 129,600 frames. If each frame takes about 6 hours to render, that would be 777,600 hours. They undoubtedly have some serious horsepower doing this rendering, so is that 777,600 computer hours?
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
They Have "LARGE" render farms... LARGE. they can "cut corners" in some aspects of the Render procedurally. they can layer and post process.. usually this is what they do however this causes the large "finish rendering" time because someone goes in and digitally touches up the shadow, or adjusts the intensity of the red in the fire in the background etc... all the photo-realistic portraits that i've seen can usually be rendered in under a couple of hours(very detailed) but being the perfectionists that they are the artists like to go back in and tweek the resulting image, make the gem more sparkely, the drool wetter.. etc.
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On Pixar's How We Do It[^] page (slide 13), they talk about what goes into each frame of a movie. Maybe I'm just being dense, but... Let's assume the average movie is 90 minutes, or 5,400 seconds, long. Each frame is 1/24 of a second, so there are 129,600 frames. If each frame takes about 6 hours to render, that would be 777,600 hours. They undoubtedly have some serious horsepower doing this rendering, so is that 777,600 computer hours?
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
Yeah, that sounds right - even if a little on the 'light' side by today's standards. Apparently, Pixar used about 1000 Sun UltraSPARC servers to do the original ToyStory. When they did the movie CARS, they used about 300 times the processing power. :omg: Tom Duff tells us that they're looking at around 1.2 million cpu hours for a 1.5 hour movie..... Here's where you can find some more facts and figures: real-time-toy-story-3d[^]
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Yeah, that sounds right - even if a little on the 'light' side by today's standards. Apparently, Pixar used about 1000 Sun UltraSPARC servers to do the original ToyStory. When they did the movie CARS, they used about 300 times the processing power. :omg: Tom Duff tells us that they're looking at around 1.2 million cpu hours for a 1.5 hour movie..... Here's where you can find some more facts and figures: real-time-toy-story-3d[^]
Thanks for that link.
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
