"Rendering such a movie on film resolution is no small task: thankfully Bowie State University donated access to XSeed, their cluster of 240 Dual-core Xserves to render the movie. XSeed took over 125 days to render the movie, using up to 2.8GB of memory to render a single frame. With each high-resolution image consisting of up to nine different layers, terabytes of data were flying across the globe and pouring into the Amsterdam studio."

I think that's far less compared to what the likes of Hollywood animation production needs. :)

i believe that a single frame usually takes up to 2 hours or something like that :O wikipedia has alot of stuff about that kind of stuff but I can't be arsed. :p

heh, the animation is worse than the rendering for pixar

read an interview over at www.cgtalk.com with a dude from pixar who worked on incredibles I think it was, might of been finding nemo actually and on average they were doing at least 60 hour weeks for 4 seconds of footage per animator :\

holy fuck.

Getting like 600+ks dl off this torrent try this.
http://tribler.org/content/Elephants_Dream_1024.avi.torrent

*EDIT*
Some nice character work, but after 5 mins it was in the recycle bin. Not worth the DL IMO :( Delivery> this. (http://143.93.108.142/%7Etnowak/delivery_trailer.avi) only 47 meg too. Right Click save target as.

you always post interesting stuff, a friend of mine who is a blender freak has talked about this movie since the start of the project :), it's really cool.