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A few
months ago, Bangalore based Ittina Animation studios announced its
production and creative involvement in the UK based Uli Meyer Studio's
latest CG venture MonsterMania! Recently the studio has announced
their installation of Qube! Render farm management systems in order
to meet its increasing rendering needs.
The
Qube! Solution is a product of Hawaii based Pipeline FX and according
to its makers is highly customizable, extensively scalable, can
be integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by 24
x 7 technical support.
Talking
to Animation Xpress.com about Qube! as their choice,
Ittina Studios CEO Manu Ittina, shared, "We reviewed a lot
of software and tools for render management and the main reasons
we selected Qube! over other solutions was for its robustness. The
other major benefit we saw in Qube! over the competition was that
it was very easy to set up and to get working. Our artists were
able to submit and manage jobs within 30 minutes of starting Qube!.
There really were no unnecessarily complex steps required; Qube!'s
highly intuitive design allows our artists to focus their time on
being creative."
With
a team of about 120 employees, Ittina Studios is gearing up for
producing numerous visual effects and animation projects, with its
key core team having previously worked on Hollywood projects like
The X-men, The Majestic, Madagascar are to name a few.
"We
tested Qube! in many circumstances and we were happy to discover
that it was very stable. With Qube! we were also able to avoid dealing
with lots of machine configurations that are often involved with
open source solutions. It provides us with an API and a scripting
language that helps our technical team optimize and automate it
for our pipeline. Qube!'s technical support team is very responsive
and they mean it when they say 24 x 7 x 365" Manu further added.
Pipeline
FX CEO Troy Brooks pointed out that, with Indian animation studios
upping the ante, a lot of International middleware and hi end software
companies were sharpening their India focus. "PipelineFX is
excited to partner with an animation technology leader like Ittina
Animation Studios. Manu's commitment to using leading technologies
has positioned Ittina Animation Studios to be a serious player in
the exploding Indian animation market"
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