Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 4K UHD (2023)

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Originally Posted by StreetPreacher

However it's UPSCALED 4K? Can't they just 'render out' a 4K master of a CGI Animated movie? Or were the original 'assets' just not produced with 4K textures etc.?

Figured native 4K would really benefit the image quality on a Cinema screen?

There are lots of reasons for that. Server space, render times, processing power (especially in post-production), artists having to make even higher res assets than usual (ESPECIALLY with all the 2D stuff in this movie in particular, and many recent productions), as well as the difference being rather negligible to many. For most companies aside from Disney, 2K is basically the only current viable option to effeciently render VFX and animation out to. Disney/Pixar can only do it cause it's Disney, and they have the deep pockets to afford faster render farms and bigger servers (and I think they also use a special in-house AI/neural network upscaler to ease up the workload?). Keep in mind that without render farm upgrades and complete system overhauls, 4K renders will just take twice as long, and some productions really don't have that extra time.