By: Dan Sarto Director Chris Appelhans bucks conventional industry “wisdom” by choosing VFX powerhouse as partner for first foray into crowded and uncertain Chinese animated feature film market. [caption id="attachment_5607" align="aligncenter" width="864"] 'Wish Dragon.' All concept art images courtesy of Base FX[/caption] It should have been a simple decision for writer and director Chris Appelhans…
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PipelineFX introduces Metered Licensing for Qube!
http://youtu.be/uSz-NRlD66M Qube! 6.8’s ArtistView in action. Developer PipelineFX has just introduced new pay-per-minute metered licensing for the renderfarm manager, supplementing its existing per-day and per-month subscriptions. PipelineFX has extended its payment options for Qube!, its renderfarm management system, adding pay-per-minute metered licensing to its existing daily and monthly subscriptions. What is Metered Licensing FAQ How…
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Obstacles and Tips for Cloud-based Rendering
Obstacles and Tips for Cloud-based Rendering The cloud is a topic that is on a lot of people's minds, from how to get started to questions on security and costs. Recently Broadcast TECH sat down with our CEO, Richard Lewis to get his take on the cloud. You can read the article here, but for…
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Major features and benefits of v6.6 and v6.7
Major Features and Benefits added to Qube! in versions 6.6 and 6.7 1. Smart Share Automatically expands job instances to utilize otherwise idle worker resources while maintaining a fair balance between all running jobs. Benefit: maximizes utilization of render resources. 2. Universal Callbacks Register callbacks that are automatically executed for every job, instance or frame.…
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