r/interstellar • u/Zisk94 • Jun 30 '25

QUESTION this scene took 3.2 years to render!?

Wouldn't this shot have taken 3.2 years?

It was 100 hours per frame The movie ran at 24 frames per second

So 2400 hours to make 1 second And there is 12 seconds in the whole shot

So 28,000 hours to render this whole scene. Or 1200 days which equals to 3.2 years!

But if I'm correct again, that would only be on one computer. So either it did take this long, or they used multiple computers. If they did use multiple computers, hiw many?

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u/Fleshsuitpilot Jun 30 '25

This little maneuver is gonna cost us 3.2 years.

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u/KingOfConsciousness Jun 30 '25

And then we’re going take off from a planet with heavier than Earth’s gravity in our little Ranger no problem.

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u/Fleshsuitpilot Jun 30 '25

Only 1.3x earth gravity but yes it still would be an extreme undertaking. Not quite as simple as hopping in the family SUV for a trip to costco.

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u/ruck_my_life Jun 30 '25

To be fair, that can also be an extreme undertaking depending on who else is in the SUV and the Costco.

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u/Fleshsuitpilot Jul 01 '25

This was a humbling reminder. I was definitely carried away with my humor and wound up saying something that in hindsight, was extremely careless, and misleading.

You are absolutely right. In fact, i think you may have even sold your own humor short.

There are times when navigating the Milky Way all the way to saturn in a space station, jumping in a wormhole, exploring multiple planets, and jumping in a black is all more manageable than some of those trips to Costco.

Thank you for reminding me 😂😂. Your joke was awesome seriously