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Intel CPU and Wall E

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Saw Wall E today, lovely film and at the end credit it said "CPUs for final renderings: Intel" I was impressed!

Wondering what kind of CPUs were used to render Wall E, a couple of QX9770 on Skulltrail :p
 
neoboy said:
Who the hell stays for the credits anymore?!

Seriously though, this is possibly, erm cool?
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Hmm, you will be surprised. In large venues, most people leave as soon as the film finishes but in smaller venues people tend to stay till end of credit! I saw it at the Barbican :D I always stay if I really like the film :p And it's cool :D
 
AFAIK at most studios like that, when all the animators go to sleepy sleep, their workstations become part of the render farm.
 
I find it funny, when people start to leave when the credits start. (some times its best to wait till the rush is over) And then the film has things in the credits. Seeing everyone stop in thier tracks and try and sit back down. lol

Its mainly comedy films that do this, but I cant remember which films.
 
i almost always watch the credits...and yeah I noticed the intel thing too.

I watched Over the Hedge the other week and it said rendered by AMD Opteron :) much older movie though
 
Clairvoyant said:
I find it funny, when people start to leave when the credits start. (some times its best to wait till the rush is over) And then the film has things in the credits. Seeing everyone stop in thier tracks and try and sit back down. lol

Its mainly comedy films that do this, but I cant remember which films.
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yeah lol! Ive always seen them just standing there looking awkward - I tend to grin towards them :D
 
Intel are apparently going to provide them with Nehalem processors and the Larrabee GPU's when theyre available.
 
toucam said:
Saw Wall E today, lovely film and at the end credit it said "CPUs for final renderings: Intel" I was impressed!

Wondering what kind of CPUs were used to render Wall E, a couple of QX9770 on Skulltrail :p
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I should hope so to, Intel's are better and faster at the moment.

helmutcheese said:
Wow thats nearly as big as my Pr0n Farm (I need upgrade). :o
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Is that it? My porn farm must be at least triple that.
 
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The way it's been working in the industry is that as processor power increases, so does the complexity of the renderings. Back in the Toy Story days it took about one hour to process one frame of a film. Today, though rendering methods are different, one frame still takes approximately one hour of processor time. It's just that now models are much more complex.
 
Naamiko_O said:
I know for Transformers the movie, one second of footage took 36 hours to render.
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Like some of the latter star wars films (ealier SW films wouldnt have been rendered at all as such :) ) - a lot of that was live action, impressive stat none the less

I loved the Toy Story films, Nemo and stuff but sometimes the style of the animation just looks wrong to me and I cant get past that to enjoy the movie, like its TOO perfect
 
Don't really see why using Intel CPUs is impressive in any way.

What's impressive is the skill of the artists and animators and the software they use to render the film. The processors used are incidental and just grunt to get the work done - pretty much anything will do the job.
 
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