Ask HN: Game Engines as Movie Renderers in 2016

Hey, everyone!

I've been (re)-investigating the question of using realtime renderers to create animated movies in 2016, given the existence of fast GPU conventional rendering techniques.

I know we've got some serious experts here in this field, so I'd be really interested in thoughts and comments.

My initial tests and experiments are written up over at

http://www.strangecompany.org/development-notes-unreal-engine-as-a-movie-renderer/

Very interested to hear if anyone has suggestions of other pipelines, other engines to try, or ways to solve the problems I found!