Re: Playing can you top that (was Re: #5 on the list of Low StressJobs)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

It still takes a long time, because the complexity of the rendered frames has 
increased as the capabilities of the rendering tools and systems have.  But the 
big guns use rendering farms.  A master system sends individual frames to 
networked slaves that render multiple frames simultaneously, so that a 100-frame 
animation is rendered in the time required to render a single frame.  Then the 
master combines all the frames.  The rendering farm at Pixar Studios contains 
1024 rackmounted 2.8 GHz processors.

Gene Kim-Eng

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>
> I'd never before thought about how long it takes to make a commercial
> movie or video. In the early days, it must have taken an incredible
> amount of time.

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