"It was rendered at the Digital Equipment Corporation headquarters outside of Boston. DEC maintained a server farm where they would QC hardware before sending it off to install in Wall Street banks and they agreed to let us use their CPU cycles while they were doing that work. This was pre-high speed internet anywhere, so someone literally needed to physcially run tar commands, pull the cartridges out of the server racks and put them in FedEx envelopes. We didn't even …
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"It was rendered at the Digital Equipment Corporation headquarters outside of Boston. DEC maintained a server farm where they would QC hardware before sending it off to install in Wall Street banks and they agreed to let us use their CPU cycles while they were doing that work. This was pre-high speed internet anywhere, so someone literally needed to physcially run tar commands, pull the cartridges out of the server racks and put them in FedEx envelopes. We didn't even have the budget for hotel rooms, so myself and one other person spent about a month taking turns crashing on a friend's couch in Boston and hanging out in an abandoned cubicle while wrangling the Bunny rendering" - Chris Burrows
