On Habré not so long ago was published the news about the creation of the short film "Fortress" , created by Dmitry Fedotov.
One of these days, I saw another short film, Azarkant, from Andrei Klimov. It took three years to create this short film, and it was created on a PC with an i7 930 processor and 6 GB of RAM. ')
Of course, on such a machine, drawing / rendering takes quite a long time (one scene is drawn for 50 hours, according to the video creator), so it remains to be surprised at the author’s patience.
Here is the video itself:
But the video with some details of the work on the film: