Anime News

Fans Can Help Produce NTT's New Unique CG Anime Project
Date: 3/2/2005
NTT has announced a new fully CG animation TV series project entitled Excel Nico. A very unique move, PC users will be able to download special software that will let them actually aid the production of the animation. It's very Similar to the SETI@Home project which runs as a screensaver, using the spare computer processing power of millions of users to crunch potential alien radio signals. In this case the participants PC power help CG rendering. Nico will be a high definition program with cell shaded CG characters in a 30 frame pers second / 1800 frames per minute format. Software will be compatible with Windows XP PC's.
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