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…

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. Moana saving Te Kā and restoring Te Fiti in Moana (2016) is still one of Disney’s most beautiful animated sequences. Moana realizing the monster was never meant to be destroyed in the first place. Pure emotional payoff.

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