Everyone in the animation industry is familiar with the voracious appetite a studio when it comes to dishing out huge files on and out of server. This means you should have a filesystem that can do a great job at I/O. The British studio, FrameWorks, was one of the earliest adopters of, Lustre, an open source clustered filesystem to help meeting this demand. This Google Techtalk gives you an understanding of what exactly Lustre all about. (more…)

In Part 1 of this four part video, Steven Ledford discusses how to use Subversion (SVN). Topics discussed are checkout, update, merge, and resolve conflicts.  (more…)

For those who do not know “Collada”, it is a xml representation of 3D scene. And for those who do not Papervision 3D is an open source action script code libary that can be used in the flash project to render 3D objects in real time. (more…)

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Build a Rackframe using an IKEA Antonius Frame (more…)

Step by Step guide to building the racks on the (more…)

Before we started our project, we identified the goals (more…)

Animux Caseless Rackmount Animation Renderfarm is an effort (more…)

Animux Inc, has been working on the Animux Renderfarm which is an open-air rackmount renderfarm built on an ikea rack. The open-air computer cases have not been revolutioned by Antec. (more…)

How to build a 24 core with 48MB RAM renderfarm in a cabinet from IKEA? (I wish Animux could be running on it…) (more…)