[solinent]

I've heard rumors that Pixar used to be able to render their movies in real-time :)

[klodolph]

From what I understand, this was never the case, and not even close. Toy Story took a ton of compute power to render (at the time), Soul took a ton of compute power to render (at the time).

[solinent]

They render them at a very high resolution, so perhaps the person I heard the rumors from was talking about reducing the resolution to something less than 10k by 10k (or more sometimes, I've been out of the film industry for 8 years).

I shouldn't really say more.

[HeWhoLurksLate]

I'd like to imagine that they use some old movie or short as a benchmark, that'd be neat to see the data on.

[solinent]

Definitely--lots of old assets are used for testing, I've seen them personally. It's standard practice to keep around old models, scenes, textures, etc.