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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on March 07, 2006, 08:15:58 PM

Title: render time
Post by: videoholic on March 07, 2006, 08:15:58 PM

http://www.flarg.com/rendering_statistics.html

Pretty interesting stats on the render farm used for Shrek..  Most all is geek talk and I don\'t understand much, but some of the stats were pretty mind blowing.

1 hour/frame average rendering time
2 GB/frame, 1 GB/layer textures


oye

Title: Render Time
Post by: THX on March 07, 2006, 08:28:57 PM

dayum, what resolution were they working at?

edit- wait a min.. pIII 800!  Wonder how those stats would be today

Title: Render Time
Post by: videoholic on March 07, 2006, 08:31:56 PM

I dunno. It\'s probably there somewhere.  Look at how many computers they were using. Pretty cool.

Title: Render Time
Post by: FatalXception on March 07, 2006, 08:34:40 PM

1 hour per frame seems ok on that kind of hardware at the resolutions I imagine they work with.  With 2000 comps (hence, 2k frames made per hour) they can render over a minute of movie per hour.... but of course, the rendering is probably the easiest stage :p

Title: Render Time
Post by: CHIZZY on March 08, 2006, 05:21:27 AM

I\'ve had 8 hour renders on just the POS crap I monkeyed around with. Just throw in some raytraced reflections, and a depth of field effect and you\'re going to bed.

Title: Render Time
Post by: ##RaCeR## on March 08, 2006, 05:35:02 AM

When i render out promo stuff using GI it can take up to 1 day for a 3000x4000 render on a P4 3ghz.

Thankgod I do realtime.

Title: Render Time
Post by: THX on March 08, 2006, 10:09:16 AM

Quote

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
When i render out promo stuff using GI it can take up to 1 day for a 3000x4000 render on a P4 3ghz.

Thankgod I do realtime.

hah, and people think computars are unecessesarily fast for today.

The day you can open a 3D render or video project and edit, save, and close it as fast as a Word document I think we\'re closer to becoming cyborg crab people.

Title: Render Time
Post by: nO-One on March 08, 2006, 10:56:30 AM

just a crab man over here, still working on them cyborg implants

Title: Render Time
Post by: Paul2 on March 08, 2006, 12:40:10 PM

Interesting as I don\'t understand thost stats.

Hey, if Shrek were being rendered in today\'s computer, how long do you guys think it will take compare to back then?