[geeks] Quick CG question...

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 06:04:59PM -0700, KRM wrote:
> I believe a great deal of the first Toy Story was rendered on SS20s.  I 
> can't imagine waiting for Renderman to complete a film resolution frame 
> on one of those.  Traditionally, Pixar has always used SGI boxen to do 
> the actual work on and Suns to render, although a lot of work for both 
> rendering and production is going to linux on peecees now.  I've always 
> wondered why they chose Suns to render on as opposed to using larger SGI 
> machiunes....

Sun probably cut them a deal.  And even if Sun didn't Suns are more
affordable than SGIs in most cases where the SGI doesn't have something
the Sun just plain doesn't.