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Technology Helps Escape Studios Put Students in the Spotlight

For over a decade, Escape Studios has taken young people with raw talent and big dreams, and shaped them into visual effects stars. Since its foundation in 2002, over 4,000 students have passed through its doors, and on to jobs on movies like Interstellar, Gravity and Guardians of the Galaxy. Featuring staff drawn from the…

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Studio Daily: 10 Ways to Save Money by Data-Mining your Render Farm

Scalar Decisions Senior Product Manager Troy Brooks on Leveraging Subscription Licenses and Cloud Computing Few pundits in the business know more about VFX pipelines than Troy Brooks. A former head of studio at Digital Domain in Vancouver, Brooks was for more than seven years the CEO of render-farm management software maker Pipeline FX as…

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Pixar talks render farms with StudioZ’s Ryan Salazar

- PIPELINEFX CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT : STUDIO Z - Rendering Sucks….But It Doesn’t Have To… StudioZ, owned by Zimmerman Advertising, (who is owned by Omnicom in NY), has been considered the "new wave" of how post production studios work. They are an advertising agency, with a full creative production studio. With less than fifty employees, they…

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Microsoft updates its open server design with a battery in every box

- PIPELINEFX CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT : MICROSOFT - New systems also add commodity SSDs for faster storage. Microsoft today announced that it was sharing a number of new designs for its cloud servers to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of management. Last year, Microsoft joined the Open Compute Project to join Facebook and other companies to…

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Render Farm Management for Digital Media Pipelines

“We’ve rendered over 5 million jobs and still counting…” - ReelFX

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