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Member Type: Company or Organization
Expertise: FX -Particle Manipulation - Rendering
Tools: Krakatoa, Deadline, and Frost

Thinkbox Software is a group of talented developers and creatives focused on designing innovative and unique solutions for artists in the entertainment industry. With decades of feature film experience, award winning effects and successful commercial products under our belts, we know we're going to create intelligent tools for your desktop, laptop and portable - all designed to unleash your creative potential.

Products:

Krakatoa provides a pipeline for acquiring, caching, transforming, modifying, deforming, culling, shading and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented speed to represent natural phenomena like dust, smoke, silt, ocean surface foam, plasma and even solid objects.

Deadline is a hassle-free administration and rendering toolkit for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX based render farms. It offers a world of flexibility and a wide-range of management options for render farms of all sizes, and supports over 40 different rendering packages out of the box.

FROST is a compound geometry object for 3ds Max that can be used to generate a single mesh from particles, vertex clouds, object positions, point data files or a combination thereof using various iso-surface or geometry cloning techniques