ARCH 481: 3D Modeling and Rendering, University of Washington, Department of Architecture
arch 481: 3d Modeling and Rendering
TOY STORY's STATS
A friend of mine who knows I care about such things, forwarded the following interesting statistics to me (I've bulleted the ones that I think you might find interesting or instructive). Perhaps you'll feel better about your own accomplishments after taking a look at these.-
Number of terabytes required to store all film information: 1
- Minutes of complete animation produced each week: 3.5 (max)
Months it took to write the shader for Andy's hair: 9 (it took the longest)
"Built-in" lights on Buzz: 10
- Least number of minutes required to render a frame of film: 45
- Most number of hours requred to render a frame of film: 20
Number of characters: 76
- Minutes of computer animation: 77
- Number of Suns in Pixar's Renderfarm operating on a 24-hour basis: 110
Texture maps for Buzz: 189 (plus an additional 450 to show scuffs and dirt)
Gigabytes requred to store final frames: 500
Number of avars (variables which an animator can control) for Buzz: 700
Number of avars for Woddy: 712
Number of avars for Woody's face: 212
Number of avars for Sid's backpack: 128
Number of leaves on the trees in Andy's neighborhood: 1.2 million
Number of shaders written for the production: 1300
Final number of shots in film:1561
- Number of frames of computer animation in film: 110,064
Number of texture maps created for the film: 2000 (most are painted digitally, but some are photographed and scanned. The carpet in Sid's house was takin from "The Shining")
Number of storyboards drawn: 25,000
Number of lines in model program required to describe Buzz: 34,864
Number of lines in model program required to descirbe Woddy: 52,865
Number of machine hours required to render frames: 800,000
Number of lines of code needed to create the film's models: 4.5 million
Box office total of Toy Story for the 5-day holiday weekend ending Nov 26, 1995: $39.1 million
Opening price of Pixar at its IPO on Wednesday (Dec, '95): $22
Price on Tue, Dec 19,'95: $40.25
Value of Steve Jobs' shares: $1,204,280,000 (1.2 Billion)
Last updated: May, 2014
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