AMPD Ventures Inc (CSE:AMPD, OTCQB:AMPDF) announced that Tippett Studio Inc, the American visual effects company specializing in computer-generated imagery for films and television commercials, has selected AMPD Virtual Studio to help power their growth and expansion in the North American market.
“This is a very important milestone for us,” AMPD Ventures CEO Anthony Brown said in a statement. “Securing an industry leader such as Tippett Studio as an AMPD Virtual Studio customer represents major validation to the entire VFX market as to the viability and overall strength of our Virtual Studio solution.”
AMPD Virtual Studio, offered by AMPD’s subsidiary AMPD Technologies Inc, is the ultimate high-performance cloud-based digital content creation platform and represents a greener, more flexible, more powerful, and more cost-effective alternative for developing cutting-edge digital content when compared with on-premise workstations and the existing ‘commodity’ cloud.
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“It all started when we were trying to find a solution for remote rendering. We tried several solutions from companies in both North America and Asia and couldn’t find a solution that made sense from either a performance or price perspective,” said Michael Root, Tippett’s chief technology officer (CTO).
“When we finally got to try AMPD Render, one of the solutions in the AMPD Virtual Studio Suite, we were immediately impressed. In fact, during our first test, we rendered approximately 4,000 frames using AMPD Render on the AMPD POD in LA, and my team was never aware that the server they were rendering on was over three hundred miles away,” he added.
Tippett’s recent projects include The Book of Boba Fett, Season 2 of The Mandalorian, Marvel Studios’ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, all three are available on Disney+, and Season 2 of Locke and Key on Netflix.
Its Toronto operations, which will house a fully-functioning post-production studio, will service clients such as Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Disney, Showtime, New Line Cinema, AMC, Amazon, and Legendary Pictures.
AMPD CTO Don Bustin said: “Moving the bulk of a studio’s compute infrastructure from under the desk into AMPD enterprise-grade hosting environments has many technical and economic advantages for digital content creation studios.
“Tippett Studio is as always doing ground-breaking work and pioneering new ways to create next-generation digital content. We couldn’t have wished for a better company to be one of the early adopters of AMPD Virtual Studio,” he added.
AMPD Ventures is building the world’s best suite of tools and technologies for the creation and distribution of next-generation digital content. Through its operating subsidiaries, AMPD Technologies and Departure Lounge, AMPD is combining the power of the high-performance edge approach to cloud computing with world-leading capture technologies to enable companies to enter the next era of digital content.
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