bluetone I don't know that much about the appleseed project except that it looks really interesting. Dean has poped into a few posts from one of the 3D threads I've seen to offer help at optimizing programs to work with MP systems. From what I can comprehend the Pooch program will allow most programs to benefit from render farm set-ups over TCP/IP . I don't have the oppurtunity to check it out (wish I did), you might just send him an email & see what comes of it. My guess is that if C2 is programmed to use MP then this appleseed thing will work fine if you have several machines.