Stratosphere From Transformers: ROTB Was So Heavy, He Choked Google's Cloud Render Farm

Rassoul Edji, a seasoned VFX Artist who worked on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, recently shared a new anecdote, revealing that Autobot Stratosphere was such a data-heavy character that Google complained his asset was overwhelming their cloud render farm's I/O capacity, which forced the team to optimize the model even further.

Rassoul has previously shared fun insights from some earlier Transformers films, as well as other projects like Pacific Rim, where the Jaegers used an average of over 1,000 UDIMs at 4K resolution for their textures. You can find a link to the studio's breakdown of hero asset texturing for that movie here:

The artist also shared how AI spiders were used to design the antique mall in Toy Story 4:

Get a closer look at Optimus Prime's and Bumblebee's transformations, read our interview with Rassoul Edji on creating a lifelike Samurai character, and follow him on X/Twitter for more:

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