Build Your Own Animation Workstation  Want to get started
creating animation on your own computer? John Edgar Park tells
you how to start from scratch. Let's find out how to select and
assemble the correct components and then get them working!  So
you've decided to take the plunge and build an animation
workstation. Here's my advice: Don't do it! Run for your life!!
Save yourself while you still can!!! Go on without me . . .  Are
they gone now? Good. Okay, now that the sensible people have
left, it's just us lunatics. While they're off buying boring,
old pre-built computers what with all their warranties and tech
support you and I are gonna throw caution into the wind and make
ours from scratch. We'll buy a bunch of shiny computer parts,
throw 'em into a box, shake it around a little and blam!, we'll
have home-brewed a monster animation rig.  Let's clarify some
things first. There aren't too many folks building their own
Macs and SGIs. So what I'm talking about here is a Windows or
Linux box. Now, Linux is fu