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New Pixar animation Elemental is the Walt Disney Company’s most technically complex feature film to date and required a new data storage pipe that lays the foundation for use of AI, reports Adrian Pennington.
“We are not actively using AI yet, but we have laid the foundation,” began Eric Bermender, Head of Data Center and IT Infrastructure at Pixar Animation Studios.
“One thing we have done is taken our entire our library of finished shots and takes for every single feature and short - everything we’ve ever done, before even 1995’s Toy Story - and put it all online and available and all sitting on the VAST cluster.”
He continued, “As you can imagine...
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