Interesting faces.
Quick thing about Ink n Paint: Last I checked, it's about two times slower than radiosity, which takes 20 minutes to calculate for a scene about 1/10 as complex as we're having in our final animation which would just look terrible without it. So, really, unless you're running 2+ ghz machines with at least 768 if not 1024 of ddr ram, I don't suggest Ink n Paint, no matter that it looks REALLY sweet. Of course, that's just my opinion. I'd really like to see someone with 2 or 3 weeks straight of render time to put together a Cel shaded animation (if they have the massive skill to do humans, maybe even an anime-based submission ^.^)

well, i do work for a place with giant server racks... perhaps i can steal their unused cycles. lets see, 10 racks * 20 servers * 1gb ram a piece (on avg)...

Too bad they dont have gfx cards.

Maybe my new job will have some nice farm. They do video compression...

Heehee

well..if you worked like or team..cell shading would be possible..start rendering some sequences in week 3-4 and you'd be okay. Net rendering on just a couple computers that are decnt, wouldn't be tough at all...but an anime qulaity render would be tough..I agree.