Cloud reveal cut after freezing integrated GPU: lessons from the Opus 5.5 short

FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-10

Part 3 of the retrospective on the Opus 5.5 + Blender short: the cloud reveal ended up looking too much like Dune; the model originally produced better clouds, but rendering froze the integrated AMD Radeon 780M GPU so they had to be removed. The author also clarifies it isn't "every frame rendered by Python" — all scenes are created and controlled by Python, then rendered by Blender EEVEE.

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