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As the silver sponsor of Kre8tif! 2019 and official cooperation partner of MDEC, Fox Renderfarm will see you from 3 to 6 September in Cyberjaya Malaysia, with gifts and surprise. Our booth number is FoxRenderfarm-S2. Don’t miss it!

Kre8tif! 2019, the Southeast Asia's Creative Conference & Content Festival, is an initiative from Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) an agency under the Ministry of Communication & Multimedia Malaysia, with the mandate to develop the creative content industry in Malaysia.

Established in 2009, Kre8tif! has received an overwhelming response from the industry, representing a platform for community and a punctation celebrating the industry for the last ten years. Kre8tif! 2019 carries the theme Moving to Mastery representing the growth of the creative industry in Malaysia, evolving over time, starting from enthusiastic creatives and entrepreneurs, and now through discipline, hard work and skill building, are now gaining mastery as highly skilled professionals, still seeking to continuously improve onwards

We can’t wait to see you in Kre8tif! 2019!

Please contact us for appointments:

William Zhao

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From 28 July to 1 Aug, SIGGRAPH 2019 was successfully held in Los Angeles, which appealed to researchers, artists, and professionals who live and breathe computer graphics and interactive techniques. Fox Renderfarm is honored to be one of the sponsors and would continually support the world's biggest computer graphics conference.

Fox Renderfarm is one of the leading solutions and tailor-made elastic large scale render pipeline with our professional services and industry-leading innovations, serving leading special effects, animation, architectural and entertainment industry around the world.

In SIGGRAPH 2019, Fox Renderfarm had great conversations with visitors from the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Brazil, China and more.

Fox Renderfarm has interviewed so many cool people, from honored guest in SIGGRAPH to R&D Postdoctoral Associate in Disney Research Los Angeles, from environment artist devoted to his original project to visual effects supervisor of Green Book and so forth.

Here’s the trailer of Fox Renderfarm’s exclusive interviews, please stay tuned with Fox Renderfarm, and more exclusive interviews will be released soon.

Moreover, Fox Renderfarm also sponsored Shenzhen & Los Angeles Chapters Meet-up on 29 July, to initiate relationships for future opportunities and partnerships for all members.

Fox Renderfarm is happy to help CG creators and scientists recharge and refuel for the year ahead. See you next year in Washington for SIGGRAPH 2020!

FoxRenderfarm website layout is upgraded now! As RAYVISION’s overseas subsidiary platform, Fox Renderfarm is one of the leading online render farm in the world. Since the foundation in 2009, Fox Renderfarm has earned a good reputation for its quality performance, great customer service and flexible pricing scheme.

In order to provide the customers with great visual experience and humanized service, we have modified the design and unified the style of Fox Renderfarm website layout according to RAYVISION’s website.

3 main features of Fox Renderfarm new website layout:

Cloud Render App

You can freely download the Fox Renderfarm Cloud Render App on the home page. Instructed by the specific tutorial video, you can easily drag and drop your file on the app. The app will upload and submit the task to the automatically. Once you see the task is being rendered. You can go and have a coffee. After that, your projects are done successfully.

Customized Rendering Solution

We can provide you customized rendering solution according to your requirement. You can enjoy dedicated private network, dedicated reseved servers, dedicated render storage, customized render environments and so on, in which you will enjoy VIP’s sovereign experience.

Calculate Render Farm Costs

will be calculated automatically into 5 kinds of price of different level customers. It is very convenient for you to make a budget.

Come to Fox Renderfarm new website to experience now!

Each January, all film fans around the world turn their attention to the Academy Awards. Interest and anticipation builds to a fevered pitch leading up to the Oscar telecast in February, when hundreds of millions of movie lovers tune in to watch the glamorous ceremony and learn who will receive the highest honors in filmmaking.

View complete list of nominees for 88th Oscars:

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

• BRYAN CRANSTON - Trumbo
• MATT DAMON - The Martian
• LEONARDO DICAPRIO - The Revenant
• MICHAEL FASSBENDER - Steve Jobs
• EDDIE REDMAYNE - The Danish Girl

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• CHRISTIAN BALE - The Big Short
• TOM HARDY - The Revenant
• MARK RUFFALO - Spotlight
• MARK RYLANCE - Bridge of Spies
• SYLVESTER STALLONE - Creed

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

• CATE BLANCHETT - Carol
• BRIE LARSON - Room
• JENNIFER LAWRENCE - Joy
• CHARLOTTE RAMPLING - 45 Years
• SAOIRSE RONAN - Brooklyn

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• JENNIFER JASON LEIGH - The Hateful Eight
• ROONEY MARA - Carol
• RACHEL MCADAMS - Spotlight
• ALICIA VIKANDER - The Danish Girl
• KATE WINSLET - Steve Jobs

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• ANOMALISA - Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
• BOY AND THE WORLD - Ale Abreu
• INSIDE OUT - Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
• SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE - Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
• WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE - Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

• BEAR STORY - Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
• PROLOGUE - Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
• SANJAY’S SUPER TEAM - Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
• WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS - Konstantin Bronzit
• WORLD OF TOMORROW -Don Hertzfeldt

BEST PICTURE

• THE BIG SHORT - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
• BRIDGE OF SPIES - Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
• BROOKLYN - Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Doug Mitchell and George Miller, Producers
• THE MARTIAN - Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, Producers
• THE REVENANT - Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers
• ROOM - Ed Guiney, Producer
• SPOTLIGHT - Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• CAROL - Ed Lachman
• THE HATEFUL EIGHT - Robert Richardson
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - John Seale
• THE REVENANT - Emmanuel Lubezki
• SICARIO - Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN

• CAROL - Sandy Powell
• CINDERELLA - Sandy Powell
• THE DANISH GIRL - Paco Delgado
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Jenny Beavan
• THE REVENANT - Jacqueline West

DIRECTING

• THE BIG SHORT - Adam McKay
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - George Miller
• THE REVENANT - Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• ROOM - Lenny Abrahamson
• SPOTLIGHT - Tom McCarthy

FILM EDITING

• THE BIG SHORT- Hank Corwin
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Margaret Sixel
• THE REVENANT - Stephen Mirrione
• SPOTLIGHT - Tom McArdle
• STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT - Colombia
• MUSTANG - France
• SON OF SAUL - Hungary
• THEEB - Jordan
• A WAR - Denmark

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
• THE REVENANT - Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini
• THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED - Love Larson and Eva von Bahr

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• BRIDGE OF SPIES - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
• THE DANISH GIRL - Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
• THE MARTIAN - Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
• THE REVENANT -Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

VISUAL EFFECTS

• EX MACHINA - Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
• THE MARTIAN - Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
• THE REVENANT - Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
• STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

• BODY TEAM 12 - David Darg and Bryn Mooser
• CHAU, BEYOND THE LINES - Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
• CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH - Adam Benzine
• A GIRL IN THE RIVER: THE PRICE OF FORGIVENESS - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• LAST DAY OF FREEDOM - Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

• AMY - Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
• CARTEL LAND - Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
• THE LOOK OF SILENCE - Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
• WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? - Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
• WINTER ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM - Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

• AVE MARIA - Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
• DAY ONE - Henry Hughes
• EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY (ALLES WIRD GUT) - Patrick Vollrath
• SHOK - Jamie Donoughue
• STUTTERER - Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

• BRIDGE OF SPIES - Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
• EX MACHINA - Written by Alex Garland
• INSIDE OUT - Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
• SPOTLIGHT - Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
• STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON - Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

• THE BIG SHORT - Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
• BROOKLYN - Screenplay by Nick Hornby
• CAROL - Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
• THE MARTIAN - Screenplay by Drew Goddard
• ROOM - Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

SOUND EDITING

• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Mark Mangini and David White
• THE MARTIAN - Oliver Tarney
• THE REVENANT - Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
• SICARIO - Alan Robert Murray
• STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - Matthew Wood and David Acord

SOUND MIXING

• BRIDGE OF SPIES - Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
• THE MARTIAN - Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
• THE REVENANT - Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
• STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

• BRIDGE OF SPIES - Thomas Newman
• CAROL - Carter Burwell
• THE HATEFUL EIGHT - Ennio Morricone
• SICARIO - Jóhann Jóhannsson
• STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - John Williams

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

• FIFTY SHADES OF GREY - “Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey; Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
• RACING EXTINCTION - “Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction; Music by J. Ralph, Lyric by Antony Hegarty
• YOUTH - “Simple Song #3” from Youth; Music and Lyric by David Lang
• THE HUNTING GROUND - “Til It Happens To You” from The Hunting Ground; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
• SPECTRE - “Writing’s On The Wall” from Spectre; Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

First Kunming Asia Animation Exhibition 2015 was held on Yunnan Ziyun Qingniao Culture Creativity Exhibition Park from December 17th to 20th. Despite its reputation for “Spring City”, Kunming was attacked by cold rain and snow, but which didn’t affect ACGN (Animation, Comic, Game, Novel) fans’ enthusiasm for participating this grand animation exhibition.

Themed by “Animation + Tourism”, this exhibition was divided into two areas: Professional Exhibition Area and Animation Exhibition Area.

Professional Exhibition Area attracted many famous animation, game and Internet companies in Asia to join the exibition. As an outstanding representative of “Internet Plus” Movie, Fox Renderfarm participated in this exihibition with several Korea’s top film companies, and attended summit forum and enterprise roadshow with local companies, which aimed at promoting the exchange and cooperation with domestic and overseas companies.

As a backstage hero of Oscar Best Animated Short Film, Fox Renderfarm introduced the projects on the big screen attracted lots of visitors, including Mr.Hublot, the winner of 86th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film; Baahubali, an Indian top-grossing movie of 2015;Dragon Nest and The Three Pigs and the Lamp, the cartoons produced by Mili Pictures; 10,000 Years Later, a cartoon work of Yili Animation Studio; Ribbit, an animation of Kartun Studios from Malaysia;Krrish 3, effects by Indian famous company Red Chillies VFX, etc.

Mr. Hublot‘s mystery, Baahubal‘s gorgeous scenery, Dragon Nest‘s magic adventures, Robb Rabbit’s superb pingpong skill...these well-made high level animations and movies with extremely cool special effects drawed the attention of all the visitors at Fox Renderfarm exihibition area.

At Animation Exhibition, Cosers from different places gathered together to provide a fantastic Cosplay show. Regardless of the cold weather, they dressed in light clothes of different splendid comic characters. At that moment, the exihibition area turned into a wonderful ACGN World.

RenderMan is one of the most popular rendering softwares, and it is actually the computer graphic criterion developed based on the famous REYES rendering engine, all of the renderers conform to this criterion are called RenderMan compatible renderers which includes the famous 3delight and Pixar’s Photorealistic RenderMan.

RenderMan has the powerful Shader compiler and animation anti-fuzzy function, which can help the designers to create complicated action movies. Another unneglectable feature is the reality, the pictures rendered by the RenderMan are extremely vivid, and this is the reason why it’s so popular in animation industry. RenderMan which is the top-level renderer has been successfully used in filmdom for over ten years, it is widely loved by the CG fans for the stable, fast and effective rendering performance.

RenderMan is the hero behind the scenes of many Oscar animations. The first Oscar Animated Short Film “TIN TOY” was rendered by the RenderMan, and it is also the inspiration for “Toy Story”. Besides, “Monsters Inc”, “Finding Nemo”, “The Incredibles”, “Cars” and a lot of great animations were rendered by RenderMan Rendering Engine.

Obviously, the animation or VFX studios all over the world are using the RenderMan to develop impressive visual effects. Its fast, stable, highly-effective and great expansibility features performs awesomely, no matter when rendering the scnes with massive geometries or lighting effects with complex requirement.

RenderMan is widely used in producing top-level moving images because of its extremely high quality and speed. It’s an essential rendering solution used in high level fields such as animation and film VFX. And besides the Pixar and Disney, many other famous production companies such as ILM and Sony are also using the RenderMan as one of the final solutions for rendering.

Now RenderMan is applied to Fox Renderfarm . Cheer up and welcome on board!

Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud Computing) held the national biggest cloud computing event – “2015 Hangzhou Computing Conference” in Hangzhou, the location of its headquarters. Jack Ma, the president of Alibaba Group, appeared on the stage of main conference venue of the Computing Conference, whose wonderful speech formally started the Computing Conference.

The Computing Conference held in this year is the largest developers’ conference of Aliyun throughout the history. It held more than 30 professional theme forums on the topic of “Internet + Innovation + Entrepreneurship”,. During the period, more than 200 elites from politics and enterprises in the field of cloud computing jointly discussed the development of cloud computing; meanwhile, approximately 20,000 global top-level developers gathered in the Could Town International Convention Exhibition Center. RAYVISION attended the conference as a long-term strategic partner of Aliyun as well as an outstanding representative of “Internet+” movies.

On April 28, 2015, Simon Hu, the president of Aliyun and Michael Liang, the president of RAYVISION held a press conference announcing Aliyun and RAYVISION established the global strategic partnership to provide global visual cloud computing services. And their cloud render farm Platform can promote the speed of rendering for movies and televisions up to thousands of times higher than that at present, at which small-sized production teams are able to achieve Hollywood-level special effects.

As an exhibitor this time, RAYVISION introduced their typical cloud rendering projects to developers and entrepreneurs from all over the world, including Mr Hublot, the winner of 86th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film; Baahubali, an Indian top-grossing movie of 2015; Dragon Nest and The Three Pigs and the Lamp, the cartoons produced by Mili Pictures; 10,000 Years Later, a cartoon work of Yili Animation Studio; Ribbit, an animation of Kartun Studios from Malaysia; Krrish 3, effects by Indian famous company Red Chillies VFX, etc.

During the period of Computing Conference, in the exhibition area of RAYVISION, the splendid promotional videos of RAYVISION drew wide attention of numerous visitors, among which many visitors consulted the staff of RAYVISION for relevant information on their own initiatives, and the staff of RAYVISION explained to them one by one with patience.

Visual Arts Expo 2015 happened on the 21st-23rd August at the Mines International Exhibition and Convention Centre inKuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rayvision participated in this exhibition with their Malaysian Agent.

Local animators such as Les Copaque, Glue Studio and Xevetor participated in the exhibition, as well as international animation studios such as Gainax and Satelight! Most of them collaborate with Rayvision on render farm service for a long time.

Visual Arts Expo 2015 lasts for 3 days, 1 day for Business and Media Event (B2B Networking Event) and 2 days for Public Access and Stage Activities (B2C exhibition). Exhibitors include animation and game studios from Malaysia, Japan and USA, broadcasters and content owners, technology companies, financial institutions and government agencies.

Visual Arts Expo (VAX) showcased to the public the best and the cutting-edge in visual arts, which encompasses animation, comics, film, music and video games. On top of the expo, there will be a closed-door business-matching session, where exhibitors, vendors, and sponsors may interact with each other.

VAX served as an exhibition for local creatives to showcase their work, and giving them to platform and opportunity to expand their services and market their products to markets outside Malaysia.

By participating in VAX, Rayvision get a chance to exchage their experience with local creatives and industry players from Japan, America and Europe, which can establish new cooperative relationships and spark more growth for visual arts industry.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015, the 8th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia, is back for the 2nd time in Japan. It attracts many professionals, exhibition visitors, and exhibitors from all over the world. Rayvision attended this grand conference to exchange their experience with the professionals and seek more business opportunities in CG industry.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 continues its tradition of being the premier platform for the advancement of computer graphics, research, gaming, science and technology, animation, art, education, interactivity, and the web. Exhibitors display their products and services from different kinds of sectors related to the computer graphics. As the pioneer of the world's premier self-service , Fox Renderfarm provides cloud computing services for rendering in various industries. The exhibition provides a great opportunity for Fox Renderfarm to promote their brand, share the rendering knowledge, communicate with customers even potential customers in CG industry.

Started since 2007, Fox Renderfarm and its subsidiary Renderbus and Fox RenderFarm have won unanimous praise from the entertainment industry. With professional services and industry-leading innovations, they serve leading special effects companies and animation studios from over 40 countries, including two Oscar winners. In 2015, Fox Renderfarm formed a global strategic partnership with Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud Computing) to provide global visual cloud computing services.

Fox Renderfarm provides users with web-based platform. As long as users can get accessed to Internet, no matter where they are, they can enjoy 24/7 non-stop service with easy-to-use rendering steps and high-quality outputs within a relative short period. Besides, Fox Renderfarm also have dedicated project managers for specific customized projects.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA), Rayvision Partner To Provide Digital Effects Services Alibaba strengthens its influence in China’s entertainment business with the Aliyun-Rayvision pact

BABA By: TROY KUHN Published: Apr 29, 2015 at 8:24 am EST E-commerce giant, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) announced today that it is deepening its foray in the cloud computing and entertainment business through a partnership with Rayvision. The pact will introduce a cloud computing built digital effects platform, and widen the company’s influence in the film industry.

The newly launched service will be given the title of , a bi-product of Alibaba’s Aliyun and Rayvision. Rayvision, currently commands about 70% of the respective market share. Alibaba’s cloud computing service, Aliyun was first introduced in China in 2009, and commands a customer base of around 1.4 million customers to date. Alibaba’s entertainment arm, Alibaba Pictures, will not have much direct involvement in the Partnership. However, the company has plans of using the service in its film endeavors. Moreover, Alibaba Pictures also announced today that the company might execute a strategic partnership with Aliyun and Rayvision in the future.

President of Aliyun, Simon Hu stated today: “By providing computing capacity, we hope to help Chinese filmmakers produce Hollywood hits like ‘Kung Fu Panda’. We hope to integrate cloud computing with the film and animation industry, and serve global studios, enabling small studios worldwide, to produce high-definition blockbusters with great visual effects.”

The is projected towards the country’s independent producers. The Aliyun-Rayvision partnership will inject a cloud-based platform providing 100,000 cores of computing power. Moreover, the e-commerce giant also ensured that the partnership is built on introducing efficiency to the structure, as it plans on slashing rendering costs by roughly 40% and rendering duration to weeks.

More importantly, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, recently announced that it intends to make its cloud computing platform, Aliyun relatively “cost competitive.” presently, Alibaba’s cloud computing platform amounts for 1% of the company’s total revenue.

The partnership also navigates Alibaba Group Holding to deeper penetration in the film industry. Alibaba realizes the significance of further enriching its entertainment arm, as the Chinese film industry quickly escalates towards premier quality animation and digital effects. Furthermore, research analyst at Gutoi Junan International, Ricky Lai; recently displayed considerable optimism for Alibaba’s entertainment arm: “We expect that assert injection to be completed this year and further transform Alibaba Pictures into a bigger, one-stop operation for movie production, financing, and ticketing sales.”

Out of the 44 analysts polled by Bloomberg, 37 recommend a Buy; five suggest a Hold, and two advocate a Sell on it. The 12-month consensus target price is $108.13, centralizing an upside of almost 27% compared to the current share price of $85.08.

APRIL 29, 2015 12:42AM PT

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has partnered with Rayvisionto launch a cloud computing-based digital effects service for the film industry.

The new is a product of Aliyun, Alibaba’s existing cloud computing division, and Shenzhen-based Rayvision, which claims 70% of the existing rendering market in China. Aliyun currently operates the distributed computing system for Alibaba’s e-commerce products.

is aimed at China’s independent producers. It will offer a cloud based platform with 100,000 cores of computing power. Alibaba said that it will cut rendering costs by 40% and cut rendering time from months to weeks.

The move signal not only Alibaba’s further entrenchment in the movie industry. It also the greater demands for digital effects and high quality animation emanating from the Chinese film industry as it scales up productions and budgets.

“By providing computing capacity, we hope to help Chinese filmmakers produce Hollywood hits like ‘Kung Fu Panda’,” said Simon Hu, president of Aliyun. “We hope to integrate cloud computing with the film and animation industry, and serve global studios, enabling small studios worldwide to produce high-definition blockbusters with great visual effects.”

While not directly involved in the partnership, Alibaba Pictures said Wednesday that it intends to use the platform in its film projects and could become a strategic partner with Aliyun and Rayvision.

Alibaba recently said that it is considering shifting some of its film technology operations into Alibaba Pictures Group, the film production and investment company previously named ChinaVision, that it acquired last year.

This article reprinted from  Variety : http://variety.com/2015/digital/asia/alibaba-rayvision-visual-effects-1201483609/

Fox Render Farm is becoming one of the most notable and credited services that we provide, without any fail.

Fox is extremely user-friendly and hence, rendering tasks can be submitted to our system by following some easy steps. The user’s online system and control panel provided by the Fox Render Farm allows you to monitor the overall rendering progress in real-time. Queuing is not required, as the final rendered file will be presented as soon as the process is finished. Our users can get their HD and Ultra HD animations rendered at full quality through Fox’s system.

With nearly two thousand workstations, the Fox Render Farm is equipped with brilliant hardware specifications. Every functional node has an Intel Xeon I7 3770K processor and an E5645 processor. The I7 3770K processor has the memory capacity of 16 GB while the Intel Xeon processor’s memory varies between 24 and 64 GB. The local network that we use is Infiniband, with a high speed of 20 Gbps and it utilizes the Windows 7 operating system.

Software such 3d Max, Maya, Softimage, Blender and C4D are supported by our rendering farm as well. It also supports render engines like V-Ray, Mental Ray and Final Render.

The cloud rendering service that we offer is our biggest strength. are usually a structure built on interconnected PCs, which share their memory and processing capabilities to efficiently process CGI rendering. Nodes that are utilized; are advanced in nature; and thus, without too much manual input and manipulation, brilliant computer generated graphics and imagery can be created. Render farms are also highly efficient and that is why, at CG Studios, we use them to examine graphic and special effects.

Traditional render farms are great, but they do not come without their limitations. Space constraints, high maintenance requirements, and expenses associated with these farms could be a huge problem for smaller companies. are amalgamated with lesser costs and user friendly system in order to provide smaller companies with the best rendering option.