Do you do physically-based rendering on individual workstations at your studio? I'm just wondering what sort of GPU rig is required. I've got a little R&D time here at work and wanna give it a go (on their dime, not mine).

I'm pasting a reply from below: It's not one single machine with 12,500 cores. It's an entire server farm rendering hundreds of frames at once. A single server stack would house many CPUs with 8 or 16 cores, and that CPU would be the one taking 11.5 hours.

I absolutely love the idea - I actually plan on testing GPU rendering with Octane in the coming weeks at home.. but, as for my studio? Well, if you've been in the industry long enough you'll know how hard it is to convince the old boys to change a pipeline. I can see this becoming huge in the video game industry - and…

You would be correct. The Technical Directors would be sending a scene to the farm in queue. The servers are most likely split into a bank of nodes 8 or 16 core CPU's, each single node rendering a single frame at a time.

It's not one single machine with 12,500 cores. It's an entire server farm rendering hundreds of frames at once. A single node on one of the CPUs may house 8 cores, and that would be the one taking 11.5 hours.

If you take the above image for example, what could have been broken down into many layers, was rendered in a single frame. If you think of a frame of animation like Photoshop, you can separate the different layers that make the frame, or flatten it. However, flattening the complex sequence of layers into a single…

That's about right. Didn't Transformers take 45 hours a frame?

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Recording Audio and Act as Account Authenticator had me the most troubled. Why would this need to record audio?

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I thought, hey this would be neat to just look around, see what I've been up to on my phone.. then I looked at what the app requires access to operate.

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