By Chris Churilo PipelineFX's Qube! Render Farm Management Software Solves Customer Problems Problem: Meet grueling digital media deadlines without having to spend the capital to build and maintain your own render farm. In order to render a 3D scene to a 2D screen is a very "bursty process." One customer may need 10,000 cores one…
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California Academy of Sciences Relies on Qube! Managed GPU Renders for Dazzling Coral Reef Special Effects
The slithery spotted eel isn’t really swimming over you, and you’re not surrounded by a school of light blue fish. But it sure feels that way as you plunge into Expedition Reef, the new planetarium show at the California Academy of Sciences. The San Francisco museum’s GPU-powered coral reef experience immerses viewers in a dramatic 3D…
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Jorge Gutiérrez Wrestles with the Limitations of Virtual Reality in ‘Son of Jaguar’
Google Spotlight Stories teams with Reel FX to debut new VR short that builds on the Mexican director’s past work from ‘El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rodriguez’ and ‘The Book of Life.’ Google Spotlight Stories’ latest virtual reality short, Son of Jaguar, rolled out this week on Google’s new Pixel 2 phone. A version for…
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Cloud to the Rescue for Qvisten Animation
PipelineFX's intelligent render farm manager integrates with Microsoft Azure to help top Scandinavian animation studio complete “Anchors Up,” a new, nautical CG feature At the start of 2017, Qvisten Animation's new project was in danger of running aground. With just six months until deadline, less than 1% of Anchors Up, its nautical-themed CG feature, had…
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