Seeing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in IMAX may be a treat for moviegoers, but it was also the biggest project Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) has ever done in the entire history of the digital effects studio.

"Getting our pipeline to handle IMAX resolution has been quite a challenge," says Jeff White, associate visual effects supervisor.

To transfer these robots onto the IMAX prints, the studio did 4K resolution (yes, really) scans for the IMAX film.

The rendering of these guys took so much capacity, that the studio devoted 80% of its rendering farm made up of 5700 core processors for the film, and even hit 83% once.

Meaning the rest of the projects ILM was working on at the time had to shoehorn their stuff into 17% of the available resources.

If digital effects is your thing, or you just want to know how many ridiculous challenges ILM had to go through to make Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, be sure to stop by Studio Daily for the entire article. This stuff is way over my head.