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Pulled from the Infini-D Replicas CD-ROM.

Same face I've had all through 2026.

Had the worst time VESA mounting the 1600SW, but the final result looks so cool and futuristic.

2002 never looked sleeker.

The Twister theming is my own creation, but "Dorothy" originally belonged to Banned From The Ranch, a VFX company founded by ex-ILM employees.

It's got a fresh install of IRIX 6.2 and I've been working on setting up period correct software. Prisms, Alias, etc. I've had it for a little while but this is the first time I've been able to get a good recording because the sync-on-green is awkward.

It took four G4 Minis networked together to render this, over several hours. So much raytracing...

If you're wondering where all the G4 Minis went, they've been grabbed by Wave Design to build the world's weirdest render farm.

Jokes aside though, the G4 Mini is actually the ideal system for rendering old school 3D animation. They're close in CPU speed to an early-2000s Power Mac while requiring a fraction of the space, and can use a modified software restore to run OS 9.

Shown here is a test scene in Infini-D split across the five Macs. It might also be possible to split workloads in Bryce, Lightwave, and MacRenderman. The systems are still being brought online and troubleshooted.