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The new ILM DataCenter looks alot like the one at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

- Ken Beyer (ILM production engineering manager): "Six hundred Linux desktops will be used for Star Wars: Episode III to be released summer 2005."
Sequence supervisor Robert Weaver noticed a tremendous performance boost upgrading from RISC (Sun/SGI) workstations to Linux PCs during Star Wars, Episode II:

AMD64 used for Episode III
Alias/wave Maya used for Episode II, Lord of the Rings, and Spiderman

Xp64 used on episode III. Don't know how much though.
Episode 1 hardware and software. Yes,Pixar's Renderman and Alias|Wavefront`s Maya . SGI computers.

The linux cluster used at Industrial light and magic.

American Jedi has got to be my favourite Star Wars parody. Check it out while you wait for the Slashdot effect to pass on Pulp Phantom, it's very well worth it.

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You definitely watched Episode I too seldom ;-)
Secenes featuring R2D2 can be found here.
Behind the scenes photos showing Kenny Baker at the Episode I set are here and there.

You definitely watched Episode I too seldom ;-)
Secenes featuring R2D2 can be found here.
Behind the scenes photos showing Kenny Baker at the Episode I set are here and there.

You definitely watched Episode I too seldom ;-)
Secenes featuring R2D2 can be found here.
Behind the scenes photos showing Kenny Baker at the Episode I set are here and there.