We are seeing an increasing globalization of VFX production and the traditional production centers are becoming less dominant in our market footprint, vitally important though they continue to be.” “RenderMan usage has been diffusing out of the traditional production hubs for a number of years now, and by way of example, our most recent major installations have gone into Canada, China, India, and France. “Given that the majority of major VFX films use RenderMan totally or partially this remain a primary focus” Ford adds. While fully 3D animated films tend to be hugely popular and profitable, the growth of fully animated feature films in production has flattened off globally but the number of VFX films continues to rise “especially now the recession is slowly fading. Additionally, visual effects farms away from Weta/ILM/Lucasfilm might typically be smaller in size.īlocking from Pixars Toy Story 3 rendered in RenderMan If this farm used Pixar’s RenderMan – then the render-farm would now be $1,500,000 to set up, but of course such large facilities tend to be individually handled and bid. So for example a major animated studio typically might set up a world class render farm of 1500 licenses.
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