onyx86

Usually the animators work on a workstation with a decent card, then when they are done with their assigned scene, they send it accross the network to the render farm, where is enters the queue to be rendered.

Those deskside units like the Quadro Plex are basically only useful for scientists doing visual calculations and simulations.

/computer animator btw

SZayat

Pixar Image Computer was sold for $135,000 back in the day.

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Crysis was made in the future and sent back in time to a day when computers were simple with only cores instead of 50^223 x 3 which you need to play crysis.

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onyx86

Also, Crysis would like to know if you have seen this boy:

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A lot of the coding isn't about graphics... those could be developed on any decent PC. Checking AI reaction, physics, etc.

Also, the workstations don't have to be that powerful if they use a client-server model.

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