XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Jun 20, 2005 ยท 42 posts
wolf359 posted Mon, 20 June 2005 at 3:13 PM
The original toy story took a little over two years render time ( not including post production) using a render farm of several hundred specially configured SUN Enterprise Computers with 32 GIGS of ram each . had toy story been rendered on one machine loaded with the most powerful CPU in the world at that time ,the render time would have still been over 256 years. The late Square pictures had over 1000 top end silicon graphics workstations and rendered in layered passes for light ,shadows, specular, and so on, and "Final Fantasy TSW" still took years just to render not counting post work. To suggest that people will be doing Full photorealistic CG films like FFTSW on their laptop PC;s in the next five years is wishful thinking at best . Sorry.