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Fun fact: It would take the average PC roughly 138,069,000 hours or about 15,761 years to render Avatar: The Way of Water. Here’s how I worked it out: The average PC in 2024 has 6 cores. The average blade on WetaFXs renderfarm has between 16-64 cores. There is roughly... show more
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I worked there on Avatar 2 :) but left before could finish :( Amazing team, everyone amazing truely... Ive been saying 200k years but i forget my working :D True that its lots of rerenders to get the best everything (water/character/sfx/emotions/mocap etc) and done the way a chain of sr artists up to the director wants it too

Yeah if you work out absolutely all the rendering that went on for the show including iterations etc. it would be several orders of magnitude more than my calculations above. My calculations are just for a single pass of everything using averages so it’s very conservative. Great work on the film by the way!

so my PC is not going to make it?

Probably not haha

I better get started then! Just share the assets on Dropbox and I'll set everything up. 😛

You’re going to need a huge hard drive 😄

you missed its an 3D film so its double Left and Right Eye render for each frame so its double the what you put as facts...

My calculations are for the 2D film but yes you’re right, the 3D version is even more computationally intensive!

That’s the final run time but prob 2-3x was rendered and a lot of left on the cutting room floor

You may be the perfect person to ask, could they top this? Could Wētā (incredible studio, love their work to bits) have more impressive papers and algorithms on pyro simulations cooking in their labs for their next movie to top this one in visual fidelity?

Absolutely, technology is ever evolving and rendering is no different. Weta is always working on more accurate and efficient rendering solutions and algorithms. This coupled with advances in hardware will allow them to do better work.


