NEWS RELEASE U.K. Creative Studio Mainframe Integrates Qube!? to Handle Rendering DemandsHonolulu, HI ? May 2, 2007 ? PipelineFX, makers of Qube!? software, the leading render farm management software for film production, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced that London-based Mainframe has integrated Qube! to manage their render work and speed up projects.
Mainframe is a creative production studio specializing in motion graphics and animation for ads, promos and branded creative content. Mainframe?s current client list includes some of the biggest names in the U.K. broadcast and advertising sectors, including Nickelodeon, BBC, MTV, Five, VH1, Radio 1, Radio 2, CNBC, Channel 4, More 4, Discovery, Animal Planet and Sony SCEE.
?As a small studio with a big output and tight turnaround times, the time spent rendering can become precious time wasted without a good system in place,? said Chris Hardcastle, Head of Production at Mainframe. ?As more and more projects continue to demand an increasing amount of render time, we looked to a solution that would be capable of handling all the different applications we use on a day-to-day basis as well as those we?ll undoubtedly use in the future. Having looked at the various render queue management solutions available, Qube! presented itself as the stable and scalable application capable of handling our in-house rendering demands.?
?The important thing for us in the studio was not to complicate the process of submitting jobs for our designers,? said Hardcastle. ?The ability to submit jobs via 3ds Max? or After Effects? has proved popular. Qube!?s user interface provides a simple overview of the queue and its workers for our designers, as well as providing detailed information for error checking and administrative purposes. Although we?re in the early stages of fully utilizing our new set up here, it is evident to our team that Qube! is a robust solution with the stability and longevity needed to enable us to pursue and successfully deliver bigger and more complex projects in the future.?
?We are seeing a lot of demand from high-end post houses and visual effects studios like Mainframe for integrated render farm management of their 3D applications and 2D applications like Adobe? After Effects?,? said Richard Lewis, Vice President of Sales for PipelineFX. ?Being able to share render farm horsepower between all the major applications a studio uses speeds project turn-around and frees workstations to create content. We are excited to welcome Mainframe as our latest U.K. customer.
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