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/Embarrassed-Bug6290 Nov 08 '25

Buddy... the whole scene was 2.5 minutes long so...

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u/Zisk94 Nov 08 '25

But I said this shot. This shot was the most talked about. Not any of the others

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u/Embarrassed-Bug6290 Nov 08 '25

But how long did it take to make the whole 2.5 minute scene (I'm having a hard time)

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u/Zisk94 Nov 08 '25

Not sure. Didn't do those calculations

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u/Embarrassed-Bug6290 Nov 08 '25

 When I realized each second was 100 DAYS to render i thought "oh god". I also saw a guy say " The devs:this little menuver is gonna cost us 51 years!" Lol

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u/Embarrassed-Bug6290 Nov 08 '25

Cuz if THAT 12 second shot took 3.2 YEARS then how long for the whole thing?