Pixar's render farm today is thousands of times faster than the machines that made Toy Story. Their frames render slower now than they did in 1995. Toy Story averaged around 4 hours a frame across 117 Sun workstations. By Monsters University in 2013, Pixar was running a 24,000-core farm, one of the 25 largest supercomputers on earth at the time, and a single frame took 29 hours. Disney's Big Hero 6 pushed past 1,000 compute hours per frame. Here's the proof it's a choice. When Pixar…

jimmycthatsme@jimmycthatsme2d ago

It would take 8 hours for Pixar's computers to render a single frame of Toy Story in 1995. https://t.co/ZhMDaO7GTN