last year we had a bunch of POS computers from our sponsor. this year however......
we willhave at least 3 computers possibly 4 with more than a gig of DDR ram. those same computers will all be runnning GEforce 4 graphics cards and have kick *ss proccessing power. our fourth computer is maybe going to be bought by our sponsor. in addition we will have 2 render farms. Our first will be at our school using computer that were just given to out robotics teacher from our sponsor, and some other computers that were given to the saem teacher as part of his computer lab. this means maybe 15+ operation computers all hooked together in a render farm. Our second render farm will include everyone's personal computers all hooked together at someone's house. We are expecting rendering to go much faster this year.
as for where we got them. we checked with our sponsor first, and they gave us a bunch of old machines. they aren't top of the line but the work. second we all dug into our pockets and fixed our comuters up as well. you may want to try going to a local computer shop and seeing if they have some computers that you can borrow, and if all else fails, ask for one to be put into your team's budget. A little more funraising could make your work on the animation go a little bit faster.
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