If you’ve ever wondered just how much horsepower it takes to make a feature-length animated film, HP has a press release touting their involvement in the new “Monsters vs Aliens”, with some statistics for you:
- 40million Computing Hours, 8x more than Shrek
- Render the nearly 100 terabytes of disk storage.
- Render more than 30 sequences in the movie that would have taken more than 1,000 years to render on a single workstation.
- Create one of the most technically challenging sequences of the film involving a flyover of a town, including houses, hills and trees. In this shot, the background trees had to be broken up into more than 300 layers to render.
- Stage an explosion in one of the battle scenes, which required more than three terabytes of disk space alone.