When making CG films like Shrek (or any CG done in great detail), each scene is not rendered wholesale, but rather done by layers. So, the backgroud might be rendered by this set of computers by this part of the farm, while another renders lighting, etc., or that they're rendered in different sessions. This adds another issue to the problems for distributed movie rendering -- compositing. A compositor needs all the different layers from a particular scene to tweak and play with, of course, so the compositor would have to wait for the animators to finish a scene, (nevermind the data needed for rendering) send out all the work units needed to render all the layers, then wait for alllllll the WU to complete, quality-check all the WU, and then start composition work.
And then it's entirely possible that a compositor might ask for a layer to be re-rendered because it just didn't work out and changes were needed to make the scene look better. Rendering is NOT the final step to complex CG animation, so even if distributed computing can somehow work, it would only hurt the production team.
"We" certainly are a lot more powerful that RIAA, MPAA, Sony, or any other group. It's all about mobilizing everyone into action. Even if it's just people from/. (that's a lot of people) starting petitions and taking action, it would surely make a difference.
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I'd like to take the "fun" out of navigating Seattle. *curses one-way streets and poorly regulated multi-street intersections*
When making CG films like Shrek (or any CG done in great detail), each scene is not rendered wholesale, but rather done by layers. So, the backgroud might be rendered by this set of computers by this part of the farm, while another renders lighting, etc., or that they're rendered in different sessions. This adds another issue to the problems for distributed movie rendering -- compositing. A compositor needs all the different layers from a particular scene to tweak and play with, of course, so the compositor would have to wait for the animators to finish a scene, (nevermind the data needed for rendering) send out all the work units needed to render all the layers, then wait for alllllll the WU to complete, quality-check all the WU, and then start composition work. And then it's entirely possible that a compositor might ask for a layer to be re-rendered because it just didn't work out and changes were needed to make the scene look better. Rendering is NOT the final step to complex CG animation, so even if distributed computing can somehow work, it would only hurt the production team.
"We" certainly are a lot more powerful that RIAA, MPAA, Sony, or any other group. It's all about mobilizing everyone into action. Even if it's just people from /. (that's a lot of people) starting petitions and taking action, it would surely make a difference.