Shake has been used on so many of the Academy Award winning films for Best Visual Effects over the past six years - all of them, in fact - and is required courseware at so many major film schools worldwide, that listing its credits would require several pages. Shake's reputation as the affordable high-end post-production solution for film and video professionals is about to get another big boost. Because with the inclusion of unlimited network render licenses and render management software on Mac OS X, visual effects artists can now distribute rendering tasks across multiple PowerPC G4-based Macintosh computers.

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