“3D animation became a key part of our toolkit .. we needed an efficient render management process when the number of projects going through the studio each month increased to a level that required our machines to work nonstop," says Michael Blosel, owner of Spacejunk. Since its humble beginnings 10 years ago when Robb Dierken and Michael…
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Image Engine Tames “Chappie” Renders with Qube!
“Qube! can deliver a lot of hard data about your farm and we mine it all,” said Gino del Rosario, Head of Technology at Image Engine. No Crashes and Customized Render Farm Management Tools Efficiently Produce 500K+ Render Jobs for the Film How many CPU minutes does it take to make 1,000 VFX shots for “Chappie”?…
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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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PipelineFX now supports OS Yosemite 10.10
OS 10.10 (Yosemite) Support: Qube! now supports OS 10.10 (Yosemite) in version 6.6.3 of our software. This current level of support includes the Qube! core and workers – everything but the Supervisor. We are targeting the addition of Supervisor support on Yosemite in our 6.7.0 release scheduled for May 11th. To get this new version,…
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