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Multi chip and multi card solutions are also coming, meaning that you will be able to fit more frame rendering power in a single tower case than Pixar's entire rendering farm. Next year.
I had originally estimated that it would take a few years for the tools to mature to the point that they would actually be used in production work, but some companies have done some very smart things, and I expect that production frames will be rendered on PC graphics cards before the end of next year. It will be for TV first, but it will show up in film eventually.
John Carmack
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When Toy Story, and Ice Age type movies are on the brink of being produced by a single PC's hardware, (as opposed to the supercomputer->software approach being used today) the gaming market can only take the ball and run with it.
Were on the verge of seeing 3D cards that will make what we are looking at today, look like vga.