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TIL Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a 2001 science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise. It was the first photorealistic computer animated feature film, requiring 960 workstations to render the film's 141,964 frames.

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