Technology Experts from Digital Domain, Scalar Decisions, and Digital District Weighing In During Birds of a Feather Event; Designer-Friendly Licensing Option Set to Debut
Los Angeles, CA (August 5, 2014) – This year at SIGGRAPH 2014, PipelineFX will focus on how studios can get to a future-ready render farm quicker. Through a Birds of a Feather panel that includes tech leads from Digital Domain and Digital District, as well as demos of the soon-to-be-released Qube! 6.6, PipelineFX will unlock how studios of every size can get there.
PipelineFX’s Birds of a Feather panel will target the strategic thinking around new technologies like the cloud, production tracking, review features, and middleware apps for asset management. Since an efficient render pipeline is critical to the success of any digital media organization working today, parsing through these topics with technology leaders will bring tangible insights. The panel will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 3 at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday August 13, 2014.
To see render efficiency in action, visitors can stop by Booth #909 for a look at all the latest additions to Qube!. Demoed publicly for the first time, Qube! 6.6 increases the efficiency of render farm pipelines through new features such as Smart Share that promote faster throughput and Flight Checks which enables tighter integration with production management/reporting tools already embedded in the pipeline.
"With Qube!, every aspect of our pipeline that used to slow down our artists is now being handled automatically by our processing farm,” said Dave Lajoie, R&D Director at Digital District. "The productivity gains we've seen lead to extra creative iterations, and that helps us substantially improve the final quality of our projects."
SIGGRAPH 2014 will also be the official premiere of a new licensing option that directly benefits the design community. The "Qube! Designer” package will drop Qube! Worker license prices for design firms running one render job per host to $100 including one-year subscriptions (sold at minimum of 5 seats), which is nearly half the price of competitive solutions. Qube! Designer is a fully functional version of Qube! intended for designers who primarily use Autodesk® 3ds Max® and/or Adobe® After Effects®.
After the show, render enthusiasts are invited to talk with PipelineFX and other like-minded industry professionals at PipelineFX’s “Render Management Social.” This event will be held at Tap & Barrel (located next to Vancouver Convention Center) from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 13, 2014.
“SIGGRAPH offers us an opportunity to come together as a community and address where we are and where we want to go next,” said Richard Lewis, CEO of PipelineFX. “We believe making render pipelines more efficient is how artists get more work done and studios use less resources. We are already seeing more and more people come to this way of thinking and taking a really hard look at render productivity.”
To schedule a meeting with PipelineFX during SIGGRAPH, please contact Email Contact.
About Qube!™ and Smart Farming™
Qube! is an intelligent, mature and highly scalable render management solution that can be quickly integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by world-class technical support. Smart Farming delivers intelligence to production pipelines by providing business-critical insight into render pipelines, maximizing investment in rendering infrastructure and automating manual processes. Qube! works out of the box with all leading content creation applications and is truly cross-platform with all software components available on Windows®, Linux®, and Mac OS®X operating systems.
About PipelineFX
As the leading provider of intelligent render farm management solutions for digital content creation, PipelineFX provides software, support, consulting and training services worldwide. Qube! runs on more than 30,000 render nodes at over 600 customers in 51 countries and is used to render film and visual effects, post production, broadcast, design, games and education media. Clients include Apple, Arc Productions, Base FX, BBC, Cinesite, Deluxe, Digital District, Digital Domain, Dyson, Efilm, Electronic Arts, Google, HBO, Hasbro, L.M.U., Laika Studios, Lockheed Martin, Method Studios, MPC, NBC Sports, Nvidia, NHK, NYU, Original Force, Pratt Institute, Procter & Gamble, ReelFX, South Park Studios, SVA, Target, Technicolor and many others. PipelineFX is headquartered in Honolulu, HI, and has offices in Los Angeles, London, Portland, Las Vegas, and Vancouver.