wow I never had a chance to know what pipeline was used. p-II/450 DELL feels so "average". I wonder what renderer they used ... bmrt ? renderman ? mentalray ?
The DVD commentary (for the original DVD release, not any of the re-issues or blu-rays) mentions renderman, and the person speaking (John Geta I think) even said they didn’t know why anyone would choose something other than renderman at that time given what he felt was its flexibility and quality of output.
I don't think there ever was PRMan for FreeBSD, but who knows at that scale they might've got Pixar to do it for them or somehow emulated? I also don't remember BMRT ever run without PRMan in the chain (trace() heh). Mental Ray was all over the place, but not FreeBSD. It was MOST LIKELY PRMan.
