And they call us Brycers crazy for waiting for long rendering;

(These facts came in the form of an article in the recent "Computer Graphics" magazine I just got).

Blue Sky Studios who recently made Ice Age 2, upgraded their systems. They built a renderfarm that has a thousand (1,000) 2.4 Ghz cpu's. The average rendertime for a single raytraced frame?

13 hours.

Now, this must be the time that a single cpu takes to render a single frame, as Blue Sky had only 4 months to render the entire movie out. And, that is possible, if you have 1,000 cpu's!

The magazine did not quote the dimensions of the render, but films are usually made at either 2k or 4k (the width equals either 2048 or 4096 pixels). But, what size they did render out to though, I do not know for sure.

Additionally, as stated before, Blue Skies program (CGI Studio) is a raytracer and they do render out volumetrics, global illumination, and in Ice Age 2, characters with procedural fur hairs that numbers in the millions...for each animal.

So, mabe 13 hours ain't so bad.

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