Wow, that came out of nowhere - a full CGI cinematic
Great to see Zappy Boi, and even though I don't like Orcs, I'm loving Saurfang at the mo
How long does it take to make a movie like Toy Story from start to finish?
[Bruce] Pixar movies can take anywhere from 4 years to 7 years! The bulk of the production though, such as animation and lighting, only takes about 6 to 8 months.
From interview with Bruce Krei, animator at Pixar.
If you have the CPU power, yes it does take a lot less time, but if you don't, it's a lot longer, afaik Blizzard renders their cinematics not via supercomputer but via in house servers that are quite a bit slower, but it's also a lot cheaper than renting out an entire cpu farm to do it for them.“Even with all of that computing might, it still takes 29 hours to render a single frame of Monsters University, according to supervising technical director Sanjay Bakshi.”
At 24 frames per second and with a movie length of 1h44m we have 149,760 frames to render. This would take 4,343,040 hours, or 495.78 years, which is nonsensical, so I believe the 29 hours per frame number isn’t accurate for their supercomputers.
If this meant 29 hours of CPU time, then with their 24,000 cores it would take 7.54 days.
The article does go on to say:
“All told, it has taken more than 100 million CPU hours to render the film in its final form. If you used one CPU to do the job, it would have taken about 10,000 years to finish. With all of those CPUs that Pixar did have, it took a couple of years to render.”
If you want to try and act smart, at least know the facts and conditions, so you don't look stupid.
Tuesday with the next step in the chain since this ends the moment that event begins. The quest log fiasco yesterday was a big mess plenty of people had their logs wiped losing any progress on things like Balance of Power, which takes weeks to do. Ion came out and said in the Q&A they fell short in week 1. So they had 1 week that wasn't a mess, not exactly ideal. A pre patch is a way to hammer out bugs for sure and sadly we get some now with the hopes we get none when the expansion launches. Another part of the pre patch is to ramp up excitement for the expansion and in many ways it feels like they are turning more people away than they are pulling in with this.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
You will never see a character like this in Alliance. Only Varian was almost like this. The others are nothing.
If you look at him around the one minute mark you can see he is covered in what looks like peach fuzz at least, not sure if they were going for just that or for the very short fur but he definitely has a layer of something over his skin. It made me smile when I noticed it.
I’m fairly sure that during one of those interviews that Ion stated Anduin’s intentions for invading weren’t as (I can’t remember exact phrase) noble, just, honourable. Something like that. I’m hoping to counter this bit of insight into Saurfang maybe we will get a look before the tree burns. What if they were planning on taking Undercity before Teldrassil event. Thus the conversation later with Anduin and Genn about having to wait till after saving the Kaldorei. Just a random theory, anything right now to balance the grey on both sides would be a welcome insight.
I will fight not for War chief, I will fight for Zappy boy. FOR ZAPPY!
It's not even just technical issues. There simply aren't enough people skilled enough available for that sort of project. The vast majority of animators skilled enough to work on a project of that magnitude are always being snatched by the likes of Disney Pixar and Dreamworks, studios which are never ever going to take on a movie project like Warcraft, unless you want it watered down into a fairy tail movie that is. Blizzard doesn't have the bargaining power to hire enough qualified people at once. Bear in mind I'm mostly just talking about animation here because that's my field. There are a bunch of other elements that makes a full CGI warcraft movie impossible to make at the moment, let alone five years ago..
Pretty sure their original plan was to release this on Tuesday. The shitstorm on the forums made them decide to release it earlier.