Founded in 2002, Pipelinefx produces Qube!, software that manages thousands of simultaneous 3-D graphics programming tasks on large clusters of computer servers called render farms.
Originally built for Square USA’s groundbreaking Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the first fully animated feature film, Qube! embodies 12 man-years of development and $2.5 million of investment and includes several patent-pending techniques for batch queuing, process control and render farm management. These techniques increase production throughput while significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to render frames for animation in movies and games. Production-proven on nearly 2000 servers, Qube! has been used by some of the world’s most renowned studios, including LucasArts Entertainment (Gladius), Electronic Arts (NBA Live, 007: Everything or Nothing), and Reel FX Creative Studios (GI Joe–Spytroops).
The Pipelinefx management team shares a common passion for technology and CG production. In addition to 40 years of experience in software publishing and high performance graphics system integration, the team has direct experience working on some of the film industry’s largest 3D animated movies, including Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Antz and Shrek. Pipelinefx is located in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, strategically placed between the entertainment centers of North America and the Asian Pacific.
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