Khai opened this issue on Sep 09, 2008 ยท 13 posts
replicand posted Tue, 09 September 2008 at 8:06 PM
According to a paper on the website of Pixar's European distributor, they prefer to do everything procedurally except for logos and defining "areas of influence" (I'll use a specular map as an example). I'd guess that 85% of that pic is procedural.
Also their renderer "mipmaps" textures and the renderer choose a texture resolution based on the distance from the camera. Their painted maps probably aren't larger that 4096^2.