[Irinikus]

There is absolutely no way in-which you'll be able to render this model on an SGI and still maintain the same level of detail!

Just remember that although the likes of Toy Story was largely modelled using SGI's, the final render was in-fact carried out using a render farm consisting of SPARC CPU's!

"A cluster of 117 (87 dual-processor and 30 quad-processor, 100-MHz) SPARCstation 20s with 192 to 384 megabytes of RAM, and a few gigabytes (4 or 5gb) of disk space each. They ran Solaris, with Pixar’s proprietary “Renderman” software, and a SparcServer 1000e for job distribution.

Pixar had some storage arrays totalling ~250GB (an SGI Challenge with 144 gigabytes, and a Sun array of 108 gigabytes) that the movie was ultimately rendered to before being backed up to magnetic tape (no more than 40GB per tape, likely less according to wikipedia’s specs on the Exabyte 8mm data tape aka data8 format) and then rendered to film for delivery, as the disk array was not actually large enough to store the final render in its entirety."

So I really don't mind using a more powerful machine to carry out the final render of my models. (As long as all of the individual parts are created using the Tezro!)