Abstract: The present invention related to processing image frames through a pipeline of effects by breaking the image frames into multiple blocks of image data. The example method includes generating a plurality of blocks from each frame, processing each block through a pipeline of effects in a predefined consecutive order, and aggregating the processed blocks to produce an output frame by combining the primary pixels from each processed block. The pipeline of effects may be distributed over a plurality of processing nodes, and each effect may process a block, provided as input to the node. Each processing node may independently process a block using an effect.