As a rule of thumb, CGI images take about an hour by the frame to render. This figure has remained about constant assibilate ii decades, withwithin spite of brobdingnagian improvements in computer processing power. A understanding for this is that advances within computer power come absorbed by increased computation sequentially to meet demands to achieve state-of-the-art image quality, whilst a hour-by a-frame figure arises from either the demands of production timescales.

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