*Last year I had to provide a client with a high res pic. I didn't have the pc to do a big enough job. Basically they wanted to blow it up onto 30ft banners etc. I sent them the Bryce file to render it themselves. Anyway when I finally met the guys who were doing it, they said that they had to buy a "super" computer just to render it. Even then it took them 6 weeks!

*I'm surprised they didn't hire it out to a render farm CO. , would have been less expensive cash and time wise.

I read an article about the movie Ice age, that team bought a shop full of PCs rather than ONE monster machine, did all of the footage work with network/rendering.

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