As a computer graphics person, M3 goes in S tier. It was the first Apple Silicon chip to gain dynamic caching and hardware ray tracing, and Apple’s implementations of both of those features is really good.
Here's the first trailer for Hexed, our new film coming out in November! We're working super hard on this one right now.
As usual, 100% rendered using Disney's Hyperion renderer! Also, since it's worth clarifying these days, completely made by humans, btw.
This was 10 years ago so I'm a bit hazy on details now, but there were a few shots in this sequence that required a TB of RAM for water sims, and it was really late in production, so our solution was to cannibalize RAM from multiple machines and build some 1 TB RAM servers.