Its created cinematics for AAA games and commercials for Coca-Cola. Its produced viral teasers for the European Space Agencys Rosetta mission and visual effects for Lars von Triers Antichrist. Its won two BAFTAs, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Palm at Cannes, and a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
And for the past five years, Polish animation and visual effects house Platige Image has used just one tool to manage the complexity of this incredible range of projects: Qube!, PipelineFXs intelligent render farm management system.
The most artist-friendly render manager
Its impossible to count how many shots weve rendered through Qube!, says Platige lighting artist Krzysztof D bski. It must be in the hundreds of thousands.
Although Platige had previously used other desktop render farm management software, it was drawn to Qube! by its combination of customizability and ease of use. Qube! has an artist-friendly interface, that displays all of the necessary data at once. I can manage all of my jobs, see the logs, and even previews directly from the UI, says D bski. It also has an open-source style that can be combined with other software easily. It feels like it fills the last gap in a good production pipeline.
Autodesk's shot-review and playback tool RV and production-tracking system Shotgun are used alongside the system, creating a powerful infrastructure for Platige employees. Renders feeding into Qube! are created using a combination of Autodesks modelling and animation packages Maya, 3ds Max and Softimage, as well as The Foundrys compositing standard, NUKE. Because Qube! is built to interact seamlessly with this entire range of tools, the process of managing render jobs has become transparent, even to artists coming to the software for the first time.
I hadnt used Qube! before I joined Platige, but once I did, I understood why it is used here, says D bski. I dont know any other render manager with such potential to be so artist-friendly.
Customizability without complexity
As well as its ease of use, Qube! can be readily customized, enabling a studio to create a render-management pipeline that suits its own particular needs.
We now have our own [custom render job] submitter for Maya, NUKE, 3ds Max and Softimage, says Krzysztof Olszewski, Platiges lighting and rendering lead. We also have integration with Shotgun, so any complete task from Qube! goes straight there. It enables us to work faster, and makes it easier for our leads to check shots.
Olszewski also praises Qube!s clustering system, which enables a studio to create custom groups of nodes within its render farm for specific jobs, or types of jobs. In Platige, we have separate departments for commercials, animation and visual effects, explains Olszewski. When a project in one area becomes a high priority, Qube! lets us easily add render machines or move them from one cluster to another bringing more power to a particular project. It's a smart way to maximize our resources.
Other key features of Qube! include its intuitive error logs, which make it easy for artists to see why a render job has failed and fix the problem before resubmitting it, and the way in which it enables supervisors to assign permissions to individual artists - which often stops jobs failing in the first place.
Thats something weve had problems with in other render-management software, explains Olszewski. With other tools, every user could block or change priorities on every task.
Qube! and Platige: growing together
Rather than resting on its laurels, Platige continues to grow, both physically and artistically. Now numbering over 250 staff, including directors, animators and visual effects artists, graphic designers and producers, the studio is currently working on an ever-expanding range of projects.
In the past year alone, its output has ranged from an interactive Star Wars video installation at New York's Discovery Times Square to Polish Legends: a pair of visual effects shorts reimagining classic folk tales, complete with an accompanying e-book. The company has even established Platige Entertainment, a new internal division dedicated to live entertainment work, which is currently collaborating on Sky, a spectacular new stereoscopic 3D musical at Theater Amsterdam.
For all of this work, Qube! forms an integral part of Platiges production pipeline, adapting seamlessly to the needs of each individual project without imposing technical restrictions that might hinder its artists creativity.
Without render farm management, we would go back to the Stone Age, jokes Krzysztof D bski. Its like saying that we could make breakfast cereals without having machines to prepare them.
And with PipelineFX introducing new innovations such as the increasingly powerful ArtistView UI, which provides an artist-friendly overview of complex render jobs, Qube! continues to grow with its users, maintaining its winning combination of technological power that speaks to their requests.
Ive got only one thing to say to PipelineFX, says D bski. Keep up the good work!
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.
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