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Fox Renderfarm is a global technology company specialized in cloud computing services for rendering in entertainment industry. We supports most popular 3D software, renderers and plugins all over the world, like 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, SketchUp, Blender, V-Ray, Redshift, Corona, and more. Supported internal and external plugins for 3ds Max, Maya, or Cinema 4D are integrated to our Arnold support. GPU & CPU rendering are both available in arnold render farm.Fox Renderfarm fire up thousands of rendering nodes instantly, high availability, no waiting necessary, easy to use, refers to MPAA security standards, also a flexible render farm pricing for you. The more reason you choose us in arnold render farm are below:The partner of multiple winning production teams.With Hollywood-level production experience for years.24/7 Live customer care & technical support.Response time: 10-15 mins.Contact available via Skype/Email.As low as $0.0306 per core hour.Volume discounts available up to 50%.Fox Renderfarm has an outstanding team with over 20 years’ experience in CG industry. Team members are from Disney, Lucasfilm, Dreamworks, Sony, etc. With professional services and industry-leading innovations, they serve leading special effects companies and animation studios from over 50 countries and regions, 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.Get $25 free trial to register and rendering your artwork online with the best cloud rendering farm now!

From 1997 till 2017, the Chinese film market experienced an unprecedented "brutal growth". The total box office of Chinese films went from 1 billion CNY (154 million USD) in 1997 to 55.911 billion CNY (8.6 billion USD) in 2017, up 13.45% from 49.28 billion CNY (7.6 billion USD) in 2016 with steady and rapid growth for 20 years. At the same time, Chinese animation films have also developed rapidly since 2012, becoming a force that cannot be ignored in the Chinese film industry.In 2017, the total number of Chinese animation films box office was 4.71 billion CNY (727 million USD), a decrease of 2.29 billion CNY (353 million USD) from 2016, however, the quality of animation films has significantly improved. In 2017, 4 Chinese animation films have cumulative box office over 1 billion CNY, 2 films more than 2016."The above 4 domestic animation films accounted for 66.6% of the whole Chinese animation films box office. “Boonie Bears: Entangled Worlds” topped the Chinese animation films box office chart, by which the cloud rendering service was provided by Fox Renderfarm (A Rayvision brand).”In 2017, there were 18 Chinese 3D animation films released by the local Chinese cinemas, of which 10 of them were rendered by Fox Renderfarm cloud rendering service.Compared with 2016, the number of Chinese animation films released in 2017 on local Chinese screen has decreased, but the number of users selecting Fox Renderfarm as their cloud rendering service provider has increased dramatically. In 2017, the rendering output by Fox Renderfarm to the industry has increased by 110% as compared with 2016.In 2017, Fox Renderfarm has optimized its data center, capacity utilization rate and operational efficiency to further reduce the capital and operating costs, resulting in a total of 10 times price cut and a massive decrease in render cost at 40%, which is a huge saving for our render farm users.2017 Fox Renderfarm Customers' Rendering Works Summary01 Chinese 3D Animation Rendering Works02 VFX Rendering Works03 Overseas/International Main Rendering WorksBesides that, there are still also:“ * ” 150-minutes Hollywood Top Animation Series“* ” 90-minutes Canadian Animated Feature“ ” Hollywood and India Co-produced 90-minutes Animation Film(Many production titles are not allowed to be disclosed due to NDA, your understanding would be appreciated)Fully Upgraded Rendering PowerIn 2017, Fox Renderfarm has released more than 100 new features, so what's going on?1. Supporting Windows &x26; Linux simultaneouslyFox Renderfarm has added support for rendering features on the Linux platform, the studio using Linux OS for production process can finally use Fox Renderfarm cloud rendering platform. The functions are exactly the same with Windows OS.2. In addition to easy drag-and-drop batch rendering, Fox Renderfarm has started API serviceOne-click drag-and-drop rendering service has received further upgrades. In addition to easy drag-and-drop to submit batch render jobs, Fox Renderfarm has also released the API service in 2017 to seamlessly integrate with the local production pipeline to allow the whole rendering process becoming more automated, programmable and interactive. This feature has been available officially and has received a lot of good reviews from our users, especially from Technical Directors.3. 1280Gbps High-Performance ThroughputHighly available distributed storage I/O throughput increased from 360Gbps in 2016 to 1280Gbps in 2017, with a boost of more than 300% and supporting concurrent access to over 5000+ nodes, performing better than 99% commercially-available storage on the market. Fox Renderfarm has developed the system specifically for the rendering storage system with the integrated use of SSD, memory and other components for multi-level cache acceleration, which has successfully &x26; completely solved the resource access lagging issue during the rendering process. When thousands of nodes rendering at the same time, it feels just like loading files from the local disk, without any delay.4. High-speed transmission engine to speed up local and cloud data synchronizationFox Renderfarm desktop client has upgraded the data transmission engine, by using self-developed Raysync and Aspera transmission engines which have higher stability, higher efficiency, and higher safety performance.5. Further upgrade of large-scale cluster scheduling systemFox Renderfarm task scheduling engine can now easily manage millions of render frame queues up to milliseconds scheduling. A single cluster can manage over 10,000 nodes, far more than any commercial render management system.6. Comprehensive data security protectionOur rendering platform data center is ISO27001 certified and refers to the security standards recommended by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) with the enforcement of data confidentiality and encryption to further secure our users’ data. In order to protect the safety of our users’ data, Fox Renderfarm has spared lots of effort to make it a reality.7. GoCloud Program to realize the dreams of future artistsIn 2017, Fox Renderfarm has sponsored more than 9.5 million render node hours’ for the industry's high potential youth creative teams and students, helping them to realize their CG dreams.8. Improved Customer Service Quality &x26; SatisfactionFox Renderfarm 24-hour online customer service and technical support team achieved to solve the user’s rendering problem from an average of 15 minutes to 10 minutes. Our excellent and competent customer service team has done a great job by providing exceptional customer experience in 2017 and proudly earned many appreciations from many loyal users.Featured Splendid Customers’ WorksBehind every shot and every frame, there are lots of endeavors by the production team, and Fox Renderfarm is also proud to stand behind them and support these great works. In order to ensure each project is completed on schedule with the ultimate effect, Fox Renderfarm mobilized massive computing cluster resources, equipped with top-level technical experts and service teams on call round-the-clock, to provide tremendous backing for the work. Today, more and more studios are relying on the cloud computing services provided by Fox Renderfarm, assuring the perfect delivery of large and small works, and the appreciation from the audience for every shot.1. Wolf Warrior 2Action film “Wolf Warrior 2” directed and starred by Wu Jing has achieved 5.68 billion CNY box office, broke the record of the Chinese box office history.Over 1700 VFX shots in the film are made up of “Real shot + 3D VFX”. The reality and sensory stimulation of real shots are synchronized through the CG production, which is enough to make the audience getting the adrenaline rush! Fox Renderfarm rendering service is highly recognized by the film’s post-production team.2. Duck Duck Goose“Duck Duck Goose” co-produced by Original Force and Wanda Pictures, is expected to be the first large-scale Chinese animation film to be released globally in the near future. Its Hollywood creative team, coupled with its first-class production quality, the animation film is expected to heap a high degree of attention and are regarded as possibly the highest quality Chinese animated film ever made in 2018, proudly comparable to Hollywood standards.In providing cloud rendering for “Duck Duck Goose”, due to the tremendous amount of assets transfer, Fox Renderfarm provided the project team with an exclusive port for transmission as well as customized proprietary versions of rendering desktop clients. Render Wranglers are assigned to monitor the whole render progress in real time. During the peak period, our render farm has dispatched over thousands of rendering nodes and eventually produced the output of 1200 shots on time. Original Force is very satisfied and highly affirmed with the cloud rendering platform and technical support provided by Fox Renderfarm.The film will be released on 2018-03-09 in China and 2018-04-20 in the USA, so stay tuned!3. Tribes and Empires-Storm of ProphecyThe “Tribes and Empires-Storm of Prophecy” produced by Novoland International Cultural Communication Ltd. broke the 100 million viewers record within its release in just 4 hours, and the viewer counts soared and obtained many good reviews from the viewers.The television series uses a large number of live shots, through the high-precision, high-quality cloud rendering technology provided by Fox Renderfarm, portraying Novoland Duan Dynasty world majestic wonderland onto the screen. Along with providing cloud rendering services, Fox Renderfarm Technical Director team provided tip-top solutions for optimizing the file architecture and rendering parameters for the client's rendering scene, speeding up the rendering without degrading the rendering quality. Everything was smooth and pleasant throughout the rendering process, Fox Renderfarm also been fully recognized and spoke highly of by the producer.4. Sky HunterThe entire process of providing cloud rendering services for China's first air combat theme film “Sky Hunter” was done in just two months, Fox Renderfarm’s highly flexible computing resource pool ensured the perfect output of massive VFX shots. Under the condition of the studio's external network connection was unable to meet the transmission need, Fox Renderfarm Beijing Office has given 24/7 support through providing transmission solution via our dedicated high bandwidth line connecting directly to our data center, allowing PIXOMONDO Beijing team to download the rendered sequences seamlessly in a short time, ensuring their composition progress went smoothly without any delay.After the release of the film, PIXOMONDO Beijing and the VFX producer of “Sky Hunter”, spoke highly of cloud rendering services provided by Fox Renderfarm: “Fox Renderfarm has provided effective assistance for the post-rendering of “Sky Hunter”, with their powerful cloud computing capabilities, it has dramatically reduced the whole film’s rendering cycle. Thumbs up for their real-time monitoring and feedback services as well as timely and effective solutions for occasional rendering issues. Hope to cooperate with Fox Renderfarm in the near future!”5. Axel: Adventures of the SpacekidsProduced by Versatile Media “Axel: Adventures of the Spacekids”, “Axel” is China’s first 3D stereoscopic sci-fi animated film, a new masterpiece of visual effect in the Chinese animation milestone.The producer Versatile Media spoke highly of the Fox Renderfarm cloud rendering service: “Fox Renderfarm has provided strong support for the post-rendering of “Axel: Adventures of the Spacekids”. With their stable and powerful cloud computing capabilities, it has drastically reduced the film rendering cycle with high-precision, multi-element, and high-quality output. Throughout the rendering process, they always provided us feedback regarding our rendering progress as well as promptly and effectively resolved any occasional rendering problems that have occurred. I believe that with the rapid development of film, television and animation industry, the animation production and Fox Renderfarm cloud rendering cooperation will be the future trend.”In the meantime, Li Lian, CEO of Versatile Media also said: “With cloud rendering, we will not let any creative ideas slip away due to technology bottlenecks, and all the things you can think of, can be realized through technology. Only with the support of technology, your creativity will spread its wings!”6. Baahubali 2: The ConclusionThe film cracked 1.2 billion USD worldwide box office in the first week of release, becoming the world's most popular Indian film ever.As the largest cloud render farm in Asia, Fox Renderfarm has rendered many Bollywood films such as “Krrish 3”, “Baahubali: The Beginning” and more. Fox Renderfarm played a significant role in the many visual effects in “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”. When the VFX company for “Baahubali: The Beginning” - Makuta VFX rendered with Fox Renderfarm for the 1st Baahubali sequel, the company highly acknowledged Fox Renderfarm rendering services and has given a good word of mouth together with a foundation of cooperation that allowed Makuta VFX to choose Fox Renderfarm once again when working with “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”.In 2017, Fox Renderfarm received great reviews from CG animation and visual studios all over the world. It is a great honor to offer cloud rendering services to industry leaders.Charlie PIXOMONDO Beijing“We have worked with Fox Renderfarm for 3 to 4 projects. Fox Renderfarm research and development team is particularly good, able to react quickly according to our needs, put forward constructive comments and give the perfect solutions. They also work together well with our pipeline team in order to allow better integration with our existing workflow. The API provided by Fox Renderfarm is perfectly integrated with our local Deadline. Our render jobs now can be submitted from the production software side, Deadline will automatically analyze, upload, return and update the corresponding information to our Shotgun.Using Fox Renderfarm cloud render farm is as simple as using a local farm and it's a great experience!”Peng ShuaiOriginal Force“Original Force is a production studio likes to take on big challenges. We like to challenge quality, difficulty, new technologies, and software. Through research into Rayvision’s Fox Renderfarm, we find out that Fox Renderfarm is highly regarded with exceptional experiences and more professional than many other providers.”A K MadhavanAssemblage Entertainment“Fox Renderfarm and Assemblage worked as one team, We understood the objective very clearly, we understood the cost and the sensibilities and we delivered work together on time, so the experiences are very happy, it’s awesome.”Phinnaeus OConnor“Boar” CG Project TeamThanks Fox Renderfarm for the cloud rendering support provided to “Boar”, ensuring our project output quality and quantity are delivered within the agreed time. The rendering platform is easy to operate, smooth and steady! Hope to continue using Fox Renderfarm for our future projects renderings in 2018.”Thanks for your great support in 2017 and we look forward to 2018Fox Renderfarm sincerely thanks every user for your unanimous recognition and support to us. 2018 is going to be a vibrant and promising year for the film, television &x26; animation industry worldwide and a brand new start for Fox Renderfarm.As the industry's leading cloud computing platform, Fox Renderfarm will continue to invest more in technology research and development, conjointly focus, optimize and further improve our service quality. We will bring the latest Hollywood practices and state-of-the-art cloud computing technologies to the industry and work hard to further reduce costs along with aiming to contribute to the rapid development of CG industry worldwide!

Fox Renderfarm is becoming one of the most notable and credited online render farms in the CG industry. We provide a web-based online platform for users and have more than two thousand render nodes. Therefore, with us, it does not matter where you are present – as long as you are connected to the internet, you can access and enjoy the 24/7 non-stop rendering 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 Renderfarm 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 Renderfarm 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. Render farms 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. Cloud rendering ensures that the performance of the traditional render farms are amalgamated with lesser costs and user friendly system in order to provide smaller companies with the best rendering option.

2018 must be a big year for Fox Renderfarm, we sincerely hope to cooperate with more 3d software and renderer companines as much as we can, that's why we communicate with them so positively and discuss about the future cooperations and benefits for both parties. Here is the detail interview with Iavor Trifonov from Chaos Group as below:Iavor Trifonov,Vice-President Cloud &x26; IntegrationsChaos GroupFox Renderfarm:  Since the establishment of V-Ray in 1997, the growth and global presence of V-Ray has gained attention from various industries, especially CG industry. Tell us more about V-Ray's global influence and users usage worldwide.Chaos Group: From the very beginning, our goal has been to help people visualize anything and everything. And this means more than just pushing the technology. V-Ray is a result of listening to and working with artists and designers directly. It’s important to really understand the daily challenges creatives face and see what we can do with our development to help, and move rendering forward. Today, V-Ray is prominent in multiple industries worldwide. V-Ray’s Academy Award-winning rendering technology is still developed with the same goal of helping artists and designers.Fox Renderfarm: Share with us about V-Ray's current brand awareness and situation in China.Chaos Group: V-Ray is very popular in the architectural visualization industry in China, but people probably aren’t as familiar with our company name — Chaos Group. There are many resources online for learning V-Ray, and the V-Ray community is very supportive. Our main developers are also very involved online since we take feedback very seriously. The new V-Ray Next for 3ds Max beta is the latest example of how we listen to our customers, and work to provide features that save time and hopefully make your life a little easier.Fox Renderfarm:  Share with us regarding the product development strategy and promotion in the near future?Chaos Group: At the moment, our key development revolves around the completely upgraded and optimized rendering inside of V-Ray Next. We’ve already got a few blog posts actually that highlight some of the new features of V-Ray Next and there are more articles in the works. You’ll also see us at events worldwide and this year we’re excited to host our very own special event dedicated to artists and developers - Total Chaos.Fox Renderfarm:  How about your thoughts on cloud rendering service and how it can benefit CG artists?Chaos Group: Cloud rendering is something that gives the smallest studios the same firepower that big studios have enjoyed for some time now. Anyone’s computer can be a supercomputer, thanks to the ease and power of cloud computing. Deadlines are inescapable in a studio environment, and having access to rendering in the cloud can take a lot of pressure off. Plus you don’t have to worry about large hardware expenses, not to mention maintenance. This also frees up computers for design work, and costs related to cloud rendering are easily tracked and can be billed by the job.Fox Renderfarm:  How can Chaos Group work with Fox Renderfarm and what are the benefits that Chaos Group can offer to Fox Renderfarm's customers?Chaosgroup: Fox Renderfarm is one of Chaos Group’s main render farm partners in China as well as in Asia. As an authorized partner, Fox Renderfarm receives dedicated support from Chaos Group both in terms of account management and technical optimization expertise. This allows Fox to react quickly when helping customers and resolve even the most complex workflow issues with the help of Chaos Group’s developers.Moreover, Chaos Group and Fox are also looking to partner on initiatives related to the educational institutions in China which will lead to opening excellent opportunities to thousands of Chinese students interested in becoming V-Ray professionals. Boosting the awareness of V-Ray among Chinese users from as early stage in their professional careers as possible together with expanding the availability of Chaos Group’s products across China is at the very core of the partnership between both companies. We’re excited to have such a strong partner in China and we look forward to helping the CG industry in China with Fox Renderfarm.Fox Renderfarm:  Originally started as Atmos Blender, then the first release of V-Ray for 3ds Max in 2002. Up to date, various mainstream 3D software is well-supported by V-Ray. V-Ray has been around with us for almost 21 years! Tell us about the new features and highlights of V-Ray that we can look forward to in 2018?Chaosgroup: We don’t want to reveal too much yet, but we’re very excited about the V-Ray for Unreal beta which just recently started. We’ll have more big news in regards to other V-Ray Next products in the near future to share with you as well!(Check our interview with MAXON and Isotropix if you are interested.)

The Rookies is a global competition for young designers, creators, innovators, and artists. After got awesome achievements in 2016 which received a total of 1,824 entries from 479 schools in 77 countries. The Rookies 2017 competitions finally kicks off. And Fox Renderfarm is proud of being the Exclusive Render Farm Partner for the great event in 2017.About The RookiesThe Rookies is the acclaimed international competition for young creatives. Founded in 2009 to showcase the most talented student designers, illustrators, film makers, animators, developers, digital artists, and launch them into the career of their dreams.The Timeline of The Rookies 2017Open for Submissions: March 7Submissions Closed: May 29Final Judging: June 21 - June 30Winners Announced: July 7How to Join The Rookies 2017 Competition1.Visit The Rookies official website: http://www.therookies.co.2.Create an account.3.After that, create your own portfolio page for showing your work.4.Upload your work.Note: Please make sure you are student or recent graduate at least 18 years old.The Whole Categories of The Rookies 2017● Illustration● Graphic Design● Motion Graphics● Photography● Architecture● Industrial Design● Film Making● Web &x26; Mobile● VFX &x26; Animation● Next-Gen Gaming● Virtual Reality● Robotics The Prize for The Rookies 2017● The latest popular software, hardware, gadgets, media and FoxRenderfarm’s exclusive cloud rendering service● Random giveaways for all entrants● A job or internship for working on biggest studios in the world● Scholarships● Expert reviews &x26; industrial rankings for helping you on future careers How lovely the prizes are there! It is totally free to enter, why not come there to show your skills and win the awesome prizes now?

Providing a platform for CG industry elites to share and communicate, sparking their creativity and imagination, promoting the development of CG industry are the purposes that RAYVISION launched the CGTS (CG Tech Summit). After the first CGTS-Shenzhen, RAYVISION (Fox Renderfarm) held CGTS-Malaysia on April 7th, 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, with Robust Fox and UNDO as the co-organizers.This China-Malaysia CG Industry Future and Development Conference aims at building a bridge for friendly sharing and exchanging, accelerating the win-win cooperation between China and Malaysia CG industry companies. The conference gathered many Chinese and Malaysian CG professionals, including Tuan Haji Burhanuddin, the CEO of Malaysian top animation studio Les’Copaque, Rick Xu, the chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Shenzhen chapter, Kenny Zou, the CEO of RAYVISION, Ben Cheung, the VP of RAYVISION, Mike Zheng, the marketing director of RAYVISION.As the host, T.A. Yeep, the principal consultant of Robust Fox, expressed his gratitude and introduced the purposes and agenda to all the guests.As the first speaker, Ben Cheung’s wonderful speech attracted all guests’ attention. He introduced the current situation and development of China films, special effects and animation industry from different aspects, such as the box office in China, the value and profit of Chinese film and animation box office, Chinese mainstream CG production studios. And he analyzed the massive challenges and difficulties that Chinese CG industry faced.Kenny Zou, the CEO of RAYVISION, showed FoxRenderfarm’s cloud rendering solution. He told us why the CG artists use cloud rendering and why choose FoxRenderfarm’s cloud render platform by elaborating the difficulties of both VFX and 3D animation production. He also showed splendid animation films rendered by FoxRenderfarm.Tuan Haji Burhanuddin, the CEO of Les'Copaque Production, shared his precious experience in his career. His topic is “IP Creation: Between Failure &x26; Success”. He introduced business model of Malaysian animation industry, analyzed IP creators and its challenges and highlighted that “content is the king” is the key to success of IP creation.Rick Xu, the chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Shenzhen chapter, used vivid charts to show gross and profit in Chinese animation market, users and grow rate in Chinese game industry, mobile game market share and eco-system of CG outsourcing market in China, thoroughly analyzed the whole CG industry outsourcing market in China. T.A. Yeep hosted the roundtable and asked speakers a few questions about culture differences between Malaysia and China, expectation from Malaysia animation studio, expectation from Chinese investors and outsourcing companies, type of collaboration that would work. The audiences also asked questions actively and shared their own valuable experiences. After the conference, all the guests were even not willing to leave, they appreciate this precious opportunity and hope to learn more experience and exchange more ideas with each other.

LightWave 3D is a cost-effective 3D animation software developed by an American company NewTek. It’s one of the most important 3D animation software in the industry.Due to LightWave’s easy-to-use and powerful functions in biological modeling and character animation, LightWave 3D is widely used in the filed of film, television, advertising, games, animation, etc. LightWave 3D’s rendering module is based on ray tracing and radiosity, which makes its rendering quality perfect. So, LightWave 3D is popular with animation studios, film and television VFX studios and game developers.The magnificant ship model in Hollywood blockbuster “Titanic”, the special effects in “Red Planet”, the game scenes in “Dino Crisis 2” and “Resident Evil - Code: Veronica”...they are all produced by LightWave 3D.Fox Renderfarm is applicable to LightWave! Fox Renderfarm has numerous rendering nodes and huge storage, they can provide a lot of servers as what customers need and save much rendering time for the projects. Fox Renderfarm’s powerful technical team can make different rendering solutions according to customers’ requirements. Customers can put more time and energy on artistic creation.Now, let’s look at what Fox Renderfarm cloud rendering support:1.Support multisequencing rendering2.Support freely choosing scenes3.Support enabling pipeline settings by force4.Support LightWave_2015.3, other versions can be configured according to customers’ requirements5.Support Lightwave Render and Lightwave Arnold Render6.Support Non-ABCD drive path7.Rendering resolution and output format can be set by filesAt last, enjoy some pictures rendered by LightWave!

Having a render farm is essential for computer graphics studio owners today. Technology in the field is advancing at a rapid rate and having the resources to keep up with client requirements is something that CG studio owners should consider.Rendering is one of the main duties that a computer graphic designer is responsible for. Having a proper system and software that performs complex rendering tasks can prove impractical sometimes due to the extensive costs and management it requires.However, the services of an online or a cloud render farm can prove invaluable. Here are some reasons:Easy to UseOnline rendering services are not only a practical option, but they are also very easy to use. Software management and maintenance are handled by service providers thus allowing your time to invest in projects that are more lucrative. All you have to do is access to the cloud render farm through your computer!Time Saving and Cost EffectiveCompared to the time and money it will take for you to do all the rendering yourself, professional online rendering can help you save company resources that can be put to better use elsewhere.Realistic Visual EffectsThe render farm is software based on complex programming that allows programmers to generate effective visual effects. Outsourcing for these services yields highly efficient, updated and realistic visual effects. Expert engineers and programmers use the latest rendering techniques to create realistic visual effects.Efficient DeliveryConverting the final project in accordance to your format and organizational requirements is a difficult process. However, external rendering services can package and distribute your project according to your required specifications.At Rayvision we offer pioneering self-service cloud computing for rendering, research into cluster rendering, parallel computing technology and computing services for cloud rendering.

25th November 2017 – 2nd December 2017The 8th China International New Media Short Film FestivalWill be held in ShenzhenChina International New Media Short Film Festival is the only national-level international short film festival in China. So far, it has been held for seven consecutive years. It is dedicated to encouraging domestic and foreign outstanding new media short film creations, discovering and supporting film and television creative talents and incubating high-quality film and television creative projects. The film festival also aims to promote the integration of film, television and new media industries as well as promote international cultural exchange and cooperation.The 8th China International New Media Short Film Festival will last for 8 days, in addition to the opening and closing ceremonies, there will also be:Short Film CarnivalCollege PartyShort Film Industry ForumShort Film CompetitionInternational Short Film Exchange ExhibitionShort Film Trade Fair...And Many More!As the pioneer of cloud rendering, Asia's largest self-service cloud rendering platform, Rayvision Technology be the first in the industry to join the prestigious 8th China International New Media Short Film Festival. In this film festival, Rayvision Technology brings in VIVUE.io, to be the first ever video review &x26; collaboration platform in the world benefited the film festival short film competition.Previously, Rayvision Technology has reached a strategic partnership with the film festival—VIVUE.io as The 8th China International New Media Short Film Festival “Official Video Content Review Platform Partner” to allow outstanding short film competition review &x26; collaboration works can be performed globally without border, anytime and anywhere. This is the future of content review &x26; collaboration!

The 10th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics &x26; Interactive Techniques in Asia was successfully held on 27-30th November 2017 at Bangkok International Trade &x26; Exhibition Centre, Thailand. The 4 days SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 has attracted more than 7,000 CG industry experts, outstanding enterprises, practitioners and enthusiasts. There are a large number of professionals from CG field in Asia, more and more people wish to know more about the development of computer graphics and interactive technologies as well as their future trends. The SIGGRAPH Asia comprised of a total of 4 major exhibitions: Trade Exhibition (showcasing the latest innovative products and services), VR Showcase (a variety of fun virtual reality scenes), Art Gallery (mainly AR/VR/MR technology in the field), Emerging Technologies Exhibits (various emerging ideas and technologies). It also covers animation &x26; visual effects, AR, cloud-based systems, computer graphics, gaming technologies, imaging, interactive &x26; innovative technologies, virtual reality &x26; simulation, visualization and other exhibitions.As one of the largest cloud render farm in the world, Fox Renderfarm is highly praised by both new and existing customers at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 in Bangkok. So far, Fox Renderfarm has provided rendering solutions for the 86th Academy Award the best animated short film "Mr. Hublot", the best-selling Indian film in the history "Baahubali: The Beginning" and "Baahubali 2: The Conclusion", another top grossing film in the Chinese box office record " Wolf Warrior 2 " and other amazing films such as "Bilal", "Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV", "L.O.R.D (Legend of Ravaging Dynasties)", "Throne of Elves" and many more.Fox Renderfarm booth has been so popular and received many visitors during the exhibition. We are truly overwhelmed by the support from the organizers as well as the attendees. This exhibition not only strengthened the cooperation between Fox Renderfarm and its existing customers but also helped new customers to understand the cloud rendering technology, patiently answered the cloud rendering process and promoted further cooperation.At the same time, Fox Renderfarm’s parent company Rayvision has launched a new platform, VIVUE.io — Better efficient review platform for video content collaboration. VIVUE.io has attracted the attention of numerous film directors and producers. VIVUE.io is suitable for content creators and teams such as directors, producers, artists, designers, managers and media to solve common problems such as video upload, review and team collaboration anytime and anywhere in order to allow content creation becomes more efficient and convenient.As of now, VIVUE.io acts as the International Selection Jury Online Review Platform for the 8th China International New Media Short Film Festival.  VIVUE.io has tailored the virtual off-site online review platform for the juries and has received good appreciation from directors such as Paul Brown, Jiang Wenli, Ding Liang, Zhuo Botang and other well-known directors.Mr. Mike Zheng, Marketing Director of Fox Renderfarm and Head of VIVUE.io, was invited to attend SIGGRAPH Asia CG in China Summit and delivered a speech entitled "Rapid Development of the China's Film Industry". Also present at the CG in China summit were president of SIGGRAPH Hong Kong, Rick Xu; president of SIGGRAPH Shenzhen, Felix Yip; president of SIGGRAPH Shanghai, Dr. Simon Shum; vice president of SIGGRAPH Hong Kong; and Jos Stam, senior research scientist of Autodesk and two Academy Awards for Technical Achievement winner. Other guest speakers also included Mr. Chris Murphy from Shanghai and Mr. Quentin from Chengdu.The CG in China Summit guest speakers mainly shared the development status and trends of CG industry in China, including animation, VR industry, real-time rendering, and animation technology, which provided a face-to-face exchange between experts and scholars from Asia.Mr. Mike Zheng described on the three stages of CG film industry in China. Through data comparison and case analysis, Mr. Mike Zheng demonstrated the current situation and trend of the development of film industry in China. He explained the whole process of BAT composition to all attendees and also mentioned about the China's film market guaranteed box office issue and box office film distribution characteristics.At this year's Student Volunteer Session Closing Conference, Mr. Mike Zheng was also invited to attend and delivered a speech about Fox Renderfarm GoCloud program. In recent years, students creative works have gained many appreciations from film and television industry. Fox Renderfarm as the industry leader, in order to unleash CG students’ unlimited potential, Fox Renderfarm has launched a unique GoCloud program to provide support for students who have ideas and creativities without financial ability and technical expertise to realize their dreams. The program includes educational discounts, rendering offers, creative and outstanding project support, technical support, professional guidance, as well as review &x26; collaboration platform and more.This year’s SIGGRAPH Asia, Fox Renderfarm also provides student volunteers with rendering and VIVUE.io review collaboration platform technical support in order to help them to realize their CG creation dreams!During the exhibition, Mr. Mike Zheng also received media interviews by giving a comprehensive introduction to Fox Renderfarm, VIVUE.io review &x26; collaboration platform, as well as RaySync enterprise data transfer solution with the aim to further promote our brands reputation.Fox Renderfarm can be described as very productive at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017, Fox Renderfarm managed to develop and maintain the relationships with the new and existing customers; VIVUE.io started to gain attention from the industry; CG in China Summit and Student Volunteer Session ended with a unanimous welcome by the attendees and volunteers. The confidence of SIGGRAPH Asia for Fox Renderfarm’s leading position in render farm industry along with the outstanding contribution is the most important reason that SIGGRAPH Asia decides to start such deep cooperations with Fox Renderfarm. And Fox Renderfarm really appreciated the awesome opportunity to present themselves in front of so many international 3D animation and VFX production companies. Let’s take hand in hand to help enhance the development of CG industry.See You Next Year, SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Tokyo!

Just finished the interview with MAXON, Fox Renderfarm is so glad to announce our cooperation with Isotropix in 2018, we also started an interview with them regarding Isotropix's future development along with how the cooperation between Fox Renderfarm and Isotropix could benefit both users. Please check the detailed interview below:Fox Renderfarm: Since the first version of Clarisse was released in 2012, more and more CG artists and studios are familiar with Isotropix, tell us a little about your company.Isotropix: Isotropix is a global, fast-growing company specialized in developing high-end professional graphics software for the VFX and animation industry. Founded in 2011, the company grew fairly quickly, and our team is now composed of about 40 passionate and talented people! Back in 2012, when we announced our flagship product, Clarisse, there was a lot of excitement but we had to face huge challenges. It’s always difficult to introduce a new paradigm shift, especially in a market that hasn’t changed much in 20 years, and it took us a few years to be recognized as the player we are today in the Industry. Today we’re very proud that Clarisse is being used in production by world-leading studios such as DNEG, Industrial Light & Magic, WETA Digital or DreamWorks Animation as well as mid-sized to small CG studios of all around the world! Lately, Clarisse has been rendering the amazing VFX of feature films such as Star Wars The Force Awakens/The Last Jedi, Star Trek Beyond and more recently Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, Valerian, Blade Runner 2049 as well as many series like The Young Pope, American Gods, Black Sails, Black Mirror and Altered Carbon.Fox Renderfarm: Share with us about Clarisse's current brand awareness and situation in China.Isotropix: Today, our customers are mostly located in the Western market. We have only a few customers in China. However, Clarisse has already been adopted by studios such as Oriental Dreamworks and Base FX which used Clarisse on several feature films including Star Trek Beyond, The Great Wall and Captain America: Civil War. We’re really excited and looking forward to the next few years to expand our position in this market.Fox Renderfarm: Share with us regarding the product development strategy and promotion in the near future.Isotropix: Many artists still don’t know how Clarisse can revolutionize their workflow: it’s a new software that introduces a paradigm shift allowing users to work interactively on their final images. To make sure that users understand Clarisse’s true power, we need to help them think a bit out of the box. This is why we are releasing more and more customer stories and tons of free tutorial materials so that everyone can truly understand the revolution Clarisse offers. You can find all these learning resources on our website and I strongly invite you to discover our latest Behind-the-scenes video: Blade Runner at DNEG as they recently won this year’s Best VFX Oscar!Fox Renderfarm: What about your thoughts about cloud rendering service and how it can benefit CG artists?Isotropix: Using a cloud rendering service has a real transformative effect on the CG industry, it gives access to a huge amount of rendering power while being very flexible. It’s a time and money saver for artists and studios that can scale up their immediate needs super quickly without requiring physical machines.Fox Renderfarm: How can Isotropix work with Fox Renderfarm and what benefits Isotropix can offer to Fox Renderfarm's customers?Isotropix: We’re thrilled to partner with the Fox Renderfarm team! It’s great to see that Clarisse is now part of their offer. Fox RenderFarm is a very serious company that owns a large number of render nodes. It gives our customers a lot a flexibility as Fox RenderFarm provides them with quick and easy access to a huge rendering power!Fox Renderfarm: Share with us about the new features and highlights of the latest released Clarisse 3.6.Isotropix: Clarisse 3.6 is a great release: it comes with a new shadow catcher, an outline shader, a powerful feature called shading variables and a real-time denoiser! With the new Shadow Catcher background plates can easily receive shadows and color bleeding of CG elements in scenes, simplifying greatly live-action integration. 3.6 also introduces a new Light Path Expression (LPE) unoccluded event to extract diffuse, reflection and transmission occlusions in custom LPEs. In addition, this release brings a new outline subpixel filter which allows to render high quality edges and silhouettes from 3D scenes to easily create great non-photorealistic images such as blueprints or cel-shading style renderings.The all-new Shading Variables is a must-have feature to streamline any look-development pipeline! Users can now create and share true material templates across multiple objects in projects to simplify the management of their scenes. Instead of duplicating whole material networks, users can directly specialize and drive them by defining Shading Variable values at shading group, geometry or shading layer levels. It’s really powerful! Finally, Clarisse 3.6 integrates the new NVIDIA Optix AI-driven denoiser technology to denoise interactive renders in real-time as well as final renders. It’s a real game-changing feature as it saves render time while allowing artists to make creative decisions faster than ever!

Abstract: Powerful cooperation for better complementarity and CG industry developmentWith the present rapid development of the CG production industry and the intensification of globalized labor division and cooperation, international cooperation has been encouraged gradually. In 2016, Malaysia’s creative industries (including animation, games, etc.) had an export quota of 1.17 billion MYR. As one of the largest cloud render farms in the world, Fox Renderfarm serves the world's leading film and television companies’ animation production, especially with companies in Malaysia. Fox Renderfarm’s powerful cloud computing skills have provided high-quality cloud rendering support for many well-known films, reducing costs and increasing output, serve as the facilitation of in promoting the development and cooperation of the CG industry between China and Malaysia.On April 19th, 2018, the “Technology Inspires Art”- CG Tech Summit (Animation Technology Sharing and Sino-Malaysian Cooperation Signing Ceremony) organized and hosted by Fox Renderfarm was successfully held at the Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel. The event brought technical knowledge to the CG expert from both China and Malaysia. It also helped boosting the depth of cooperation between the two countries.It is reported that Fox Renderfarm, as the world's leading visual cloud computing platform, covers more than 50 countries and regions in the world. At the same time, Fox Renderfarm has participated in and rendered many well-known domestic and foreign films, mainly including: “Mr. Hublot” which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short at the 86th Academy Awards; “Wolf Warrior 2” which broke the Chinese box office record at 5.6 Billion Chinese Yuan; “Baahubali”, the best-selling Indian film in history; “Monkey King: Hero is Back” which recorded nearly 1 Billion Chinese Yuan Chinese box office; “Duck Duck Goose” animation which its production level is comparable to Hollywood’s; “Boonie Bear” series that broke the record of China's animated movie box office; “Detective Chinatown 2” that broke China's first-week box office records and etc.Guests attending the summit included: Janice Lim-Head of Animation in Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Shuai Peng-VP of Film Division in Original Force, Ling Chen-Business division production director in Original Force. Yanjuan Liu –Deputy General Manager of Fantawild, and Mike Zheng-Fox Renderfarm Marketing Director and CG Technology Summit founder, and Les'Copaque Production (Tuan Haji Burhanuddin Md.Radzi), SA (Goh &x26; Raymond), Animamundi Studio (Chun Chong Leong), Wau Animation (Usamah Zaid &x26; Mohd Faiz), Pixelline (Chris &x26; Way) and other chief executives of top production company in Malaysia are among the attendees.Janice Lim, Animation Director of the Malaysian Digital Economic Development Bureau, addressed the summit and gave a brief introduction to Malaysia's current animation industry development. She said that the exchange and cooperation between the animation industry of China and Malaysia will jointly promote the economic development of the two countries. At the same time, she also hopes that Fox Renderfarm, as the leading visual cloud computing platform in the CG industry, can organize more activities to provide learning and communication opportunities for the animation industry elites of both countries and jointly promote the development of the industry.At the same time, Fox Renderfarm VP Wangcheng Xiao and Marketing Director Mike Zheng introduced the current status of Fox Renderfarm's development, the future strategic layout, and the original intention and significance of launching the CG Tech Summit. In the past quarter, Fox Renderfarm’s home-made movie box office accounted for one-third of the box office of domestic cinemas in the same period, and together with SIGGRAPH CAF and its Shenzhen branch, successfully hosted the first SIGGRAPH animation tour exhibition in China. Technical Seminar. The success of the CG Tech Summit is of great significance. As the sponsor of the CG Tech Summit, Mr. Mike Zheng hopes that more industry leaders will participate and create more value for the industry.At the summit, Fox Renderfarm teamed up with the leading Chinese animation production company, Original Force and Fantawild, to bring together a series of technical expertise sharing for Malaysian industry elites. They also conducted on-site interactions, to exchange and discuss in-depth animation production techniques and experiences.Original Force CG Division Production Director-Ling Chen“From Motion Capture to CG Production Process”The " L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties ", which was produced and published by Original Force, is China's first full-reality CG animation film and has created a brand new movie type in the Chinese film industry. When the film was first released, the audiences can not stop but give thumbs up to its high quality CG technology. At the summit, Ling Chen, CG Division Production Director in Original Force, took " L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties "season one and two as examples to compare processing and management of motion capture data, layout documentation’s publication of motion capture data and the management of synthesis documentation, in order to explain the process from motion capture to CG production in details.Original Force Film Division VP-Shuai Peng“Film Rendering Difficulties of Original Force”Original Force is the leader in China’s digital production industry, focusing on providing excellent video and game content production services for the global digital entertainment industry. Shuai Peng gave a comprehensive introduction to the development of Original force and her deep cooperation with Fox Renderfarm over the years. At the same time, the film and television production works that Original Force involved were among the examples shared and an in-depth analysis was made on the difficulties that the team had faced and endured in the animation technology.Fantawild Deputy General Manager-Yanjuan Liu“Boonie Bears Animated Series Film Technology Development Process”The Boonie Bears animated series is a key project created by Fantawild. From “Boonie Bears: To The Rescue!” in 2014, “Boonie Bears: Mystical Winter” in 2015, “Boonie Bears: The Big Top Secret” in 2016, “Boonie Bears: Entangled Worlds” in 2017 to “Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink” released in the 2018 Chinese New Year period. The production level of the above five films has increased year by year, with a total of nearly 2 Billion Chinese Yuan at the box office. Yanjuan Liu took the development of five films as an example to deeply analyze the key factors of success, stressing the importance of the storyline, and the significance of the combination of technology and art to film and television production.At the summit, senior executives from Malaysia's top animation companies also actively interacted with guests and conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on business cooperation and technical production.The “Technology Inspires Art”-CG Tech Summit sponsored by Fox Renderfarm not only brings the cutting-edge CG technology and the most practical successful case experience to the industry, but also provides an exchange and learning opportunities for the animation industry elites between the two countries. At the same time, the signing of cooperation between China and Malaysian mainstream production companies is also conducive to the promotion of complementarity and division of labor between the two countries and their strong cooperation to jointly promote the development of the CG industry in Malaysia and the creative industries in Malaysia.