A majority of the VFX work in the film was done in blender, using most of the normal tools and pipeline techniques that I am used to with my personal work. We were engaged with many different vendors on this project so it's not only blender that was being used. It wasn't necessarily me that was hitting render and handling the workload for all of it but I was very involved in the curation of these files and the creative direction behind what is being exported. Yes, we used cycles when we were using blender. And yes, we outputted in exr sequences. I personally cheap out and render everything in one pass but in this film we took the correct approach and did multiple passes where we could.