It would take 8 hours for Pixar's computers to render a single frame of Toy Story in 1995.

Could never thank these guys enough for their work. I can’t imagine what pain in the ass all this was, but they made something truly remarkable

The advancement is incredible!

No es verdad. Se demoraba entre 30 a 50 minutos por fotograma. Fueron realizadas en terminales " Sun Microsystems" y "Silicon Graphics" sumado a qué usaron una granja de esos equipos con un total de 114 computadoras trabajando 24 hs

Remember when Pixar accidentally deleted the files for Toy Story 2 from their server w/ no backups, but the tech director working from home on maternity leave had a copy & saved the film She was later laid off by Disney…

Everyone talks about 1995 Toy Story like the 1994 TV Series Reboot didn't exist.

So, it would take them 8 days to render just 1 second of the movie? And it took them ~100 years to render the whole thing?

Subsurface scattering was still a huge render hit way into the late 2000s. The look that Toy Story had, even though simplistic, was actually quite complex.

It was a beautiful decade. The ’90s were the perfect balance between emerging technology and a real social life, not a digital one. I think it was the last time the world was truly free.

If that were true it would have taken over a hundred years to render it.

That is not true.

Now everyone can do this at home with z free copy of DAZ and it takes about a minute on a decent computer to render out the photorealistic scene you built.

Every morsel of clay used in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas took 100 million years to get there.

La situación era insostenible

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This is misleading The original Toy Story is 81 minutes long. 81 minutes * 60 seconds per min * 24 fps * 8 hours = 933 '120 hours to render (almost 1 million hours) 933 '120 hours / 24 = 38'880 days 38880 / 365 days = 106 years It would take them 106 years to render it

Cotton-Eyed Joe

Waste of resources

People massively underestimate how fast technology compounds. In 1995, rendering a single frame could take 8 hours. Today we’re watching AI go from “interesting experiment” to something that can replace entire workflows in what feels like months. The scary part isn’t how powerful the technology is today. It’s how normal today’s impossible technology might feel 10 years from now.

And they almost lost the entire production if not for one employee who had a backup WOW😳 I heard about that but is it really true? I don’t think they would’ve retried to make it if they had too

@SlickSushi731

dream job for a smoker

and people still say practical effects were the easy way out...

Eight hours for one frame, and it still became movie history—Pixar magic really started with patience and pixels ✨

Creo que para el t-rex de jurásic park, demorava más de 24hs por frame

Hand drawn animation is the pinnacle

Now gamers with their HD ray traced games are like "how come I'm only getting 40 FPS?!?!"

Wow

So its still not down yet

Ebeyin a. Sende aw o kadar sürse film şuan hazır olurdu

Wait 8 hours to do a single frame? That would require a single computer decades to process??

@grok if that's really true and assuming 30fps calculate how long it took to render the entire film

They used AI to write the script for Toy Story 5 and that took only 8 milliseconds.

Lazy.