Pixomondo did a great job with HUGO> check out the VFX breakdown

:full article here:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/01/pixomondo-hugo-vfx/

“We didn’t have enough electricity [to do the rendering] in one office,” Pixomondo VFX supervisor Ben Grossmann said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “We blew out two power transformers trying, and had to get the electricity company to help us install more powerful ones…. Each time we rendered the shot, it cost $35,000 in electricity alone.”

stumbled upon this video in the suggestion bar on Youtube

so so true.. most of these 15 plugins are the sole reason why 3ds max is so popular.

RENDERMAN - one of these days

one of these days I will get to use renderman...

RIB files confused me at first but coming from programming it all made since after a while.. and who says it isnt fast? of course the guy in this video isnt using this for production but you can see how it can save time. Especially with other renderers like Mental Ray or Vray.

The real reason I make movies