This month’s issue of Wired Magazine features the technology of Pixar and the new Toy Story 3 movie. They have an interesting breakdown of the nearly 4 years of work that went into the production, some with some useful details like this:
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Rendering—using computer algorithms to generate a final frame—is well under way. The average frame (a movie has 24 frames per second) takes about seven hours to render, although some can take nearly 39 hours of computing time. The Pixar building houses two massive render farms, each of which contains hundreds of servers running 24 hours a day.
You can read this brief article on their site, or check out the new Wired iPad App for the full thing.
via Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story 3 | Magazine | Wired.com.
