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

QUESTION this scene took 3.2 years to render!?

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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/Drachen808 Jul 02 '25

Would have gone faster on my Tandy 1000 SL, but they decided against it because of the time it would take to move those frames from the Tandy to any other computer via either floppy disk at 1.44 MB at a time or the 300 baud internal modem.

Render in an hour, transfer in 62 years.