#pixitmedia

Chicken Bone FX Studios has teamed up with pixitmedia and Konsistent Consulting to design a bespoke, high-performance, and intelligent data-managed solution running in the Cloud. Based on pixstor secured workstations connected by ngenea to AWS, the new agile and scalable collaborative workflow serves high-end film and TV clients, with the artistry of the best visual effects talent located anywhere in the world.

Chicken Bone FX Studios is one of the finest boutique VFX facilities in the business, employing up to 80 artists known for masterful visuals, high-end environments, photoreal FX, compositing technical prowess and innovative global workflow. The company works on some of the industry’s highest-profile series such as SEE, Westworld, The Queen’s Gambit, The Walking Dead, and Foundation for a variety of studios and Networks including Netflix, Apple, Warner Bros, HBO, AMC, Amazon Studios, NBC, ABC, CBS, Hulu and others.

With its existing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) no longer able to sustain the performance or elasticity required to maintain growth, Chicken Bone FX Studios reached out to pixitmedia to unleash new capacity and easily unlock talent pools located anywhere.

Working closely with the facility, pixitmedia devised, tested and implemented a fully cloud-based setup for Chicken Bone FX Studios 2D pipeline. This featured a pixstor ‘hot’ tier on the front end for live projects linked to AWS S3 for limitless archive capacity. ngenea’s high-performance data management layer automatically extends and scales the local file system to give Chicken Bone FX Studios granular control of their data.

John Renzulli, Founder/VFX Supervisor, Chicken Bone FX Studios says,

“The cost-benefit analysis of workflow improvement through leaning more heavily on public cloud solutions and utilizing intelligent data management was immediate and clear to us. Moving into an environment where we had the ability and the control and scale of our virtual desktops, plus storage in an almost real-time manner was incredibly attractive. pixitmedia was the only partner able to provide the holistic solution required for this endeavour.”