PipelineFX Announces Support for Windows Vista

Honolulu, HI – January 27, 2009 – PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™ software, the leading render farm management system for film and post production, game development, and digital media education today announced support for the Windows Vista operating system.

Windows Vista users can now run the Qube! Worker software and act as either a dedicated render host or can be scheduled to become a render host in off-hours. Vista users can also run the Qube! GUI and submit, modify and manage jobs from their desktop.

“We are seeing an increase in customers around the world moving to Windows Vista for their artists and students desktop machines,” said Troy Brooks, CEO of PipelineFX. “We are committed to supporting all the major releases of Windows operating systems and continue to partner closely with Microsoft.”

About Qube! and PipelineFX: Qube!™ is the leading enterprise-class render farm management system for film production, visual effects, game development and digital media education. Qube! is highly customizable, extensively scalable, can be integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by world-class technical support. Qube! has custom pipelines for creative applications like Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk Maya®, NUKE™, SOFTIMAGE®|XSI®, DNA Research’s 3Delight, Shake®, Adobe® AfterEffects®, Pixar’s RenderMan®, Eyeon® Digital Fusion™ and many more. Qube! is IBM ServerProven®, database driven and operates in Linux®, Windows® and Mac OS®X environments. PipelineFX, with headquarters in Honolulu, Hawaii, and offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, CA and Vancouver, B.C. was founded in 2002. Qube! is used by world-class film and game studios and post houses including Digital Domain, South Park Studios, Electronic Arts, Rainmaker Animation, Laika Studios, Disney Interactive Studios, Starz Entertainment, Imagi, Reel FX, and Attitude Studio. Qube! is used by schools around the world including the School of Visual Arts in N.Y., Goebelins School in Paris, Carleton School of Architecture, Full Sail, the University of Advancing Technology, Pratt Institute, the University of Hawaii-Academy for Creative Media, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. For more information, please contact Richard Lewis, VP of Sales of PipelineFX: richard@pipelinefx.com, Phone: 1-808-685-7823, 1000 Bishop Street, Suite 509, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813, USA. Also visit www.pipelinefx.com.

Trademark Notice: Qube!™ and Qube! Remote Control™ are trademarks of PipelineFX, LLC.  All other trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners.  ©2008 PipelineFX, L.L.C.

 

 

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