Monday, June 11, 2012




REAL TIME 3D CLOUD RENDERING FOR ALL ANIMATION STUDIOS AND ARTISTS 


3d animation requires rendering time to complete the processing of the designed animation/project. This processing time is known as "Rendering" time. This rendering takes hours, or even days of non stop processing on studio computers and workstations. Many artists and animation studios lack the costly infrastructure and until now had done rendering by setting aside one or a few of the available workstations to do the rendering, Sometimes even sacrificing their own working computers for rendering. Since rendering requires heavy processing this meant that the computers doing rendering could not be used for other parallel work. The long time required for rendering and non nonavailability of machines to work on, forced animation studios and animators to sacrifice crucial project opportunities, work on strict deadlines and long lead times. This also meant passing the opportunity cost onto the customers. Even with the high end graphics solutions available rendering is the biggest time consuming part of a project life-cycle and a major deterrent for many animators and studios to carry out big projects and compete with the industry giants. 

Setting up number of spare computers for parallel processing is an option but even that comes with its limitations. As each computer needs to be technologically advanced and this means increase in cost. A studio can consciously only invest a certain amount on such computers beyond which the purchase becomes nonviable. Even the maintenance of the purchased machines like temperature control, backup, electricity consumption etc are a heavy burden and hence always avoided. 

All of the above issues can be solved by using www.renderingfox.com

Six Steps launches cloud rendering setup, www.renderingfox.com, that will give access to animators and animation studios to over 200+ servers on demand (24x7, 365 days) to satisfy their rendering needs. The most technologically advanced setup of multiple cores, over 4800 cores is available for any user at nominal cost. 

Animators and studios can use RenderingFox setup from remote locations by just logging into their account on www.renderingfox.com, uploading their project files and press render to generate instant render output.

Six Steps is a 3d technology firm and our core focus is on providing and maintaining the cloud render setup for all animators and studios to use. Mass capitalization and resource sharing online allows us to be the cheapest render farm available. Th power of cloud with latest technology also makes us the fastest. 

Now using our render setup animators and animation studios can reduce their rendering time from days to just a few hours. We support softwares likes 3dsmax, maya and host of plugins and rendering tools. 

We strongly suggest all 3d studios and those related to animation industry to share this with fellow colleagues and help all reduce costs and make the industry more efficient. 

visit www.renderingfox.com to know more or call 919890602068 or 9120-64011048

Friday, June 1, 2012

.: SIX STEPS launches, www.renderingfox.com, India's...

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SIX STEPS launches, www.renderingfox.com, India's...
: SIX STEPS launches, www.renderingfox.com, India's first Cloud Render Setup, for all animators and animation studios. GET USD 20/- (INR...

SIX STEPS launches, www.renderingfox.com, India's first Cloud Render Setup, for all animators and animation studios. GET USD 20/- (INR 1100) on free registration..

Rendering: a animators nightmare. Its the most time consuming and expensive part of the project process and requires heavy computer processing to complete. Many studios and animators are unable to work on multiple projects and speed up project delivery because of this bottleneck. Increasing the number of workstations is not a feasible option because of the heavy costs involved. A single high end workstation may cost upto Rs. 1,00,000/-!!! Not to mention the cost of software, maintenance, wear and tear of machine and electricity involved. The investment in such machines is a major deterrent and rightly so, as many a times the investment to returns are not justified. Studios and animators prefer to work on  available machines and lose crucial time and have long delivery schedules, a reason why many talented artists and studios have being unable to scale.

 As a Industrial animaion firm, Six Steps faced similar issues of scaling and decided to do something that will benefit the entire animation Industry. 

Six Steps and its partners  have invested over USD 1.2 million  to setup Indias first cloud renderfarm enabling the entire animation industry to access our setup at nominal prices. 

WWW.RENDERINGFOX.COM is a online application to enable animators to access over 200 high end servers on demand and only pay for what they use. Prices are as low as just Rs.1 ($0.05) per core hour.
Unlimited plans are also available for users with anticipated heavy rendering requirements. The solution can be used by following simple 3 steps

STEP1: UPLOAD PROJECT FILES
STEP2: SELECT RENDER SETUP AND PRESS START
STEP3: DOWNLOAD RENDERED OUTPUT

The hardware specification of each machine is as follows:

Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 * 2, 24 Cores with Hyper-Threading
RAM: 24GB 
Local networking:20Gbps InfiniBand 

OVER 200 such machines


SOFTWARES SUPPORTED



3dsMax 9 (32/64-bit)
3dsMax2008 (64-bit)
3dsMax2009 (64-bit)
3dsMax2010 (64-bit) 
3dsMax2011 (64-bit) 
3dsMax2012 (64-bit)
V-Ray
Scanline 
Final Render 
Mental Ray
Krakatoa
VRayScatter 2.5
MultiScatter 1.1.05/1.0.18a
Afterburn V4.0
DreamScape 2.5
FUMEFX 2.1 
Thinking.Particles V3.0_SP2
RealFlow V5 
Tree Storm
ForestPackPro3.0
Glu3D
Maya 7.0 (32-bit)
Maya 8.5 (64-bit)
Maya 2008 (64-bit)
Maya 2009 (64-bit)
Maya 2010 (64-bit)
Maya 2011 (64-bit)
Maya 2012 (64-bit)
Software
MentalRay
V-Ray 2.00.04
 


Get $20/- (INR 1100/- ) on every new registration. Registration is free and non conditional. Animators can use his amount to try the application. Share this with every animator or studio so they can take advantage of the service and help the industry become more profitable and efficient.