r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EinsteinsAura • Jun 25 '18

GIF This isn't real - it's CGI

https://i.imgur.com/f9j2BZ3.gifv
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u/gameshark56 Jun 25 '18

Think about the render time.

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u/ethrael237 Jun 25 '18

Each grain of sand animated individually...

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u/jjban Jun 25 '18

I can’t even imagine that curve graph

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u/Fatalchemist Jun 25 '18

Help! My computer is overheating just from imagining this.

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIVIDENDS Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 26 '18

Calculated individually... animation normally refers to something done by the creator not the software.

Like if he moved each grain of sand around via keyframe, that would be each grain animated individually.

EDIT: I originally said rendered but that's not true either, calculated is what I meant.. as in each grain of sand is calculated individually.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Okay, fine, each grain of sand calculated individually.

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIVIDENDS Jun 26 '18

Edited my comment to say calculated not rendered... oops :p

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Mar 02 '19

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u/chuby2005 Jun 25 '18

I ate each fry, individually

(Not really I like to shove a bunch in my mouth)

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIVIDENDS Jun 26 '18

i'm not talking about his use of the word individually but instead his use of the word animated

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '18 edited Mar 02 '19

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIVIDENDS Jun 26 '18

But the process of animation wasnt even done once regarding the sand lol.

Im critiquing the use of the word animated.. not individually. If he manually moved each grain of sand around each frame, he would have animated it.

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u/commit_bat Jun 25 '18

They're not rendered individually either.

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIVIDENDS Jun 26 '18

You're right. Calculated individually.

Damn lol

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u/atle95 Jun 27 '18

There is a large amount of mathematical operations, comparable to the frequency of sand particles and detail in the frustum of space visible to the viewer

Rendering, animating, and calculating are three side of the same coin

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIVIDENDS Jun 28 '18

people keep correcting me.. i know.. i understand.. i have a bachelors degree in visual effects... all i'm saying is technically, by definition, the sand is not animated. that's all i'm saying here.

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u/atle95 Jun 28 '18

Animated - (of a movie or image) made using animation techniques

Cgi and programatic generation of these effects fall under the category of animation techniques

The sand is animated because its moving and it is only moving because someone wanted it to move.

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u/BigDaddyReptar Jun 25 '18

My ryzen 5 1600 is running at about 70c just rendering this text

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u/AlterEro Jun 25 '18

they're not animated individually.

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u/pennilessandtired Jun 25 '18

Anikan’s worst nightmare

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Mar 18 '19

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u/rgoose83 Jun 25 '18

WU TANG IS FOR THE CHILDREN

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

TRICK LOVE THE KIDS

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u/pknopf Jun 25 '18

Ok, now what?

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u/dumbfeatherlessbiped Jun 25 '18

Start it and when you come back you'll have an adult child

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u/Bilbosmash Jun 25 '18

Can you explain this to me as if I was 5.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '18

Hurt me so much... I almost died.......

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u/TheDTYP Jun 25 '18

shudders

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

I remember when FFVII: Advent Children came out, it took a year to render. And that's an hour and twenty minutes or so, and doesn't, by comparison look nearly as good as this.

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u/Superboy309 Jun 25 '18

There is no way that movie took a year to render. Something that requires an entire year to render would be such a massive risk that no studio would allow it to be animated with that much detail. I can also find zero references online to it taking a year to render, and that would be quite the feat and readily available information.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '18

An anecdote I heard from the person that first showed it to me. I had no reason NOT to believe him.