The lab comprises a 4K screening theater, as well as multiple creative bays running professional systems for post-production and rendering workflows for 3D animation, VFX, Digital Intermediate (DI) and finishing, as well as VR content creation for platforms such as Oculus Rift.
LAS VEGAS – Silverdraft LLC (www.silverdraft.com) has created a unique supercomputing lab in the heart of Hollywood. Located at the historic Jim Henson Studios, The Silverdraft Center For Content Creation (SC3) will enable freelance artists and creators of content to post-produce and render their projects using the company’s fast and optimized software
Old time animation was a super-intensive cell-by-cell process. Colossal amounts of artist’s time went into all of the tiny attendant details that went with the main image being conveyed: the intricate dance of light and shadow, reflection and hue, texture and contrast… crafting quality shading takes time – lots of time. The audience demands their entertainment and the beleaguered artists work fervently to accommodate them. Oh, what shall spare our artists from being worked until they drop?
Rendering.
duMonde VFX recently delivered over 100 VFX shots for NBC’s Crossbones series, using Devil & Demon’s mobile super-computer, The Devil’s Playground. These included many complex ship-replacement shots, involving CG simulation, texturing, modeling and lighting work, that Edlund described as “number-crunchingly intensive and would not have been possible without the unrivalled speed of Devil & Demon technology.”