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Yea, I can't find Pixar doing this. I thought I remembered an article from years ago. Other companies did it as well. https://books.google.com/books?id=QxAEAAA

Yea, I can't find Pixar doing this. I thought I remembered an article from years ago. Other companies did it as well. https://books.google.com/books?id=QxAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA51&ots=MJAXAN7zms&dq=rendering%20movie%20idle%20pcs&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=rendering%20movie%20idle%20pcs&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=QxAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA51&ots=... But they might since RenderMan supports it, http://renderman.pixar.com/resources/current/tractor/tractor_nimby.html http://renderman.pixar.com/resources/current/tractor/tractor...

raverbashing 11y ago
> Yea, I can't find Pixar doing this Maybe because it doesn't make sense to copy a lot of model/texture data to/from a slow laptop for processing.
- njharman 11y ago
  The data is small compared to processing required. Laptops aren't that slow. They are as fast as the fastest "servers" from a few/several years ago. Finally, most employees proly don't have laptops, OP misspoke.