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To: Esvida who wrote (3558)	11/15/1997 4:29:00 PM
From: Mike Mackovitch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Re: Toy Story (OK, here we go, once again.) The facts about Toy Story were that Sun told Pixar they would loan them a bunch of Sun servers if and only if all of the final rendering was done on those machines. Pixar realized this was a good deal and said "OK, we'll take your free machines".. then they went and bought a bunch of SGI workstations to do all of the real/interactive/graphics-intensive work on. So, yes, "The movie 'Toy Story' was rendered using Sun servers". However, Pixar could have also used a room full of cheap PCs to do the final rendering because the final rendering is all computation and NO graphics and NO interactivity. So, the facts are that SGI workstations were BOUGHT by Pixar to design/animate Toy Story and Sun servers were donated to Pixar to compute the final images you see in the movie. --MikeM