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Rendering Shrek@Home?

Posted by timothy on from the render-it-like-pork dept.

JimCricket writes "There's an interesting piece at Download Aborted about using distributed computing (a la SETI@Home, Grid.org, etc.) in the film industry. With the recent release of Shrek 2, which required a massive amount of CPU time to complete, one must wonder why the film industry doesn't solicit help from their fans. I'd gladly trade some spare CPU time in exchange for the coolness of seeing a few frames of Shrek 3 rendered on my screensaver!"

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  1. porn snippits a la Fight Club by morton2002 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who'd be the first to hack the client and return frames containing porn snippits like Tyler did in Fight Club?

    C'mon, you know you'd be tempted :)

  2. I'd insert.... by xaoslaad · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A nice, big, cock...

    ala Fight Club

  3. Re:Doubt it'll happen... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Oh, great. Fansubs.

    Now I'm trying to erase those mental images of Shrek speaking in a high tenor, and Fiona singing bass.

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  4. Idea: by Duhavid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Open source movies?

    Use @home idea to make this cost effective.

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  5. All your base are belong to shrek! by toygeek · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Shrek: What happen ?
    Donkey: Somebody set up us the bomb.
    Fiona: We get signal.
    Shrek: What !
    Fiona: Main screen turn on.
    Shrek: It's You !!
    Farquad: How are you gentlemen !!
    Farquad: All your base are belong to us.
    Farquad: You are on the way to destruction.
    Shrek: What you say !!
    Farquad: You have no chance to survive make your time.

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  6. They are already by schnits0r · · Score: 0, Redundant

    and you thought windows was slow due to crappy code?

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  7. Re:Doubt it'll happen... by System.out.println() · · Score: 0, Redundant

    By the way, heres the trailer for appleseed. Quite a beautiful CG animation to behold. apple.co.jp trailer

    You did notice I had that trailer linked in my post as well, right? :)

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  8. Re:Doubt it'll happen... by Naffer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oops, I had competely missed that. I was wondering why you hadn't linked it if you were going to mention it. Heh.