When Animal Logic completed work on The LEGO Batman Movie, the latest instalment in its animated LEGO adventures, its artists worked out that the entire film would take 57,418,857 hours to render, albeit on a single CPU. Of course, the animation studio, which now has offices in both Sydney and Vancouver, relies on an advanced render farm to complete its 3D animated features and visual effects work.
And for The LEGO Batman Movie, that work was incredibly complex. A crew nearing 500 people laboured over 451 CG characters in the film, along with multiple vehicles, buildings and environments, each effectively made up collections of individual LEGO-approved bricks. Gotham City, for example, consisted of 220,831,071 bricks (in real LEGO brick terms, the city would cover 379,095 square feet or 6.6 football…