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A Behind the Scenes Look at Pixar and LucasFilm’s Renderfarms
Have you ever wondered how many computers it takes for Pixar to render their big screen 3d animated films or ILM to render giant transforming robotic aliens? Peter Sciretta over at slashfilm.com has managed to get a behind the scenes look at the renderfarms used at both Pixar and LucasFilms.
At Lucasfilms the set-up includes more than 3,000 AMD processors, proprietary render-management tools, allowing desktop workstations to be added to the render farm pool after hours, expanding the processing capacity to more than 5,000 processors.
For the full story, videos and pictures check out the post at slashfilm.com
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