The historic Battle of Badr is the longest battle scene to be constructed in an animated feature film ever. Depicting armies upon armies battling over a running time of 11 minutes.
In the historic Battle of Badr scene, there was 5000 Characters and 1000 horses. Numerous patterns and shaders were developed to give individuality to every horse in the film. The battle (only) took more than 1,000,000 hours of processor activity, 300,000 of man-hours and 100,000 GB of storage.
The animation and FX team studied horses over a span of 6 months so that they were well prepared to animate these magnificent animals. It took them nearly 2 years to develop the complex fur, rig and animation of all animals in the movie.
Cast and production team are from 20 different countries.
Each Falcon shot acquired more than 5TB of space because of dense caches. Creating Falcon was technically challenging and particularly his fighting with Snake along in desert. One scene took more than 10 months to create to get hyper realistic result.