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Jellyfish Pictures Opens First European Virtual VFX Studio

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Manoojmanoharan



LONDON -- BAFTA and multi-award winning production studio, Jellyfish Pictures, today announced the opening of two new virtual visual effects facilities in Oval, London, creating the very first virtual VFX studios in Europe. The new sites are an addition to Jellyfish Pictures’ established studios in Brixton, South London, and Fitzrovia, Central London, and increase capacity by 70 artists, taking the company’s total workforce to nearly 200 employees.

With no hardware housed onsite, Jellyfish Pictures’ Oval studios operate in a completely PC over IP environment and are powered by their Brixton facility, which accommodates the new studios’ servers. Exponential-e provided a 10 Gig Ethernet network, enabling Jellyfish Pictures to virtualize distributed Strongbox Technology workstations through Teradici’s remote visualization solution and connect all four of its offices onto the same circuit. All sites sit on the same logical WAN, which provides access to Software Defined Storage (SDS) from Pixit Media and enables remote collaboration and support for flexible working practices.

The Oval offices allow for a heightened workplace experience for the artists thanks to the elimination of noise pollution emitted from servers. As well as providing a scalable solution, the PC-over-IP office is ultra-secure, with support managed remotely, directed to a central source rather than individually across 100 different desktop computers.

Jeremy Smith, CTO of Jellyfish Pictures, who spearheaded the technical side of the project, said, “Within three years our workforce has expanded to 170 and now beyond. After running out of floor space at our first two offices in Fitzrovia and Brixton, we wanted to open a third and fourth office near The Oval. By underpinning different cloud technologies with Exponential-e’s network, we had the building blocks for a new virtual office, allowing us to simply extend the workloads that we already had to set-up our new premises.”

Phil Dobree, CEO of Jellyfish Pictures, added, “The two new Oval offices are testament to how technology and creativity work hand-in-hand. The combined technology solution provided by Exponential-e gives the studio the ability to respond quickly to spikes in demand and treat resources as if they are all centralized, regardless of whether they are based on private or public cloud storage. With Jellyfish’s accelerated business growth, we now have the capacity to scale computing power and deploy virtual workstations in an instant, to execute even the most demanding of projects.”

Both Oval studios house Jellyfish Pictures’ animation teams, extending beyond the Brixton Studio team, where work is midway through the reboot of Dennis the Menace, Dennis and Gnasher. Current work at the Oval studios includes Bitz and Bob, the new Cbeebies and Fremantle Media preschool animated series, as well as the second series of the US-hit children’s show, The Floogals.

Jellyfish Pictures creates award winning visual effects and animation for the advertising, film and television industries.

Source: Jellyfish Pictures cheers
https://www.awn.com/news/jellyfish-pictures-opens-first-european-virtual-vfx-studio

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