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Pixar renders its animated movies with one of the top 25 supercomputers in the world; with all that power, it still took 2 years of processing to render every frame of Monsters University.

Jul 21, 2022•1 min read

Fun Fact: Pixar renders its animated movies with one of the top 25 supercomputers in the world; with all that power, it still took 2 years of processing to render every frame of Monsters University.

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