Final Fantasy was created and rendered on over 100 Silicon Graphics Octane computers and rendered over a large renderfarm, taking up to a month to produce 3 - 5 minutes of film. They used a proprietary software they developed specifically for the film, with aid from alias wafefront to design it. Nothing was scanned , the photorealistic human textures were made completely by computer. The only human models they used were motion captures to design the skeleton. Each one had over 100 morph targets and each hair was individually placed on the model. I dont think we could reproduce the film with 100 new northwood p4's and if each of us had maya4 with experience in using it. You simply cant get that kind of detail with downloaded clothes and textures. Even if some of us are good enough to produce certain parts, we couldnt produce all of them, and it would take days and days to render a single still, and thats before we even got to the compositing effects.