Frantic Films Software announced the official release of Deadline 2004. Deadline 2004 is Frantic Films production proven, modern, cost-effective render queue solution for Windows.
“We created Deadline because none of the render queue products we’ve
tried over the years could meet the demands of real-world VFX
production.”
– Ben Houston, Frantic Films Software
Deadline was developed at Frantic in a feature film production
environment to exacting standards of reliability and third party
renderer interoperability. Extensive feedback from in-house artists,
technical directors and producers during the production of X-Men 2:
United, The Italian Job, Paycheck and Scooby-Doo 2 has nurtured a truly
user friendly and well tailored feature set. From the beginning
Deadline was designed to be the paragon of stability, thus with
Deadline individual render nodes in the network can crash for whatever
reason without adversely affecting the remainder of the render farm or
any jobs in progress.
“Deadline made our network rendering problems a thing of the past.”
– Blizzard Entertainment
For a new product, Deadline 2004 offers extensive out of the box third
party renderer support including top-tier support for 3ds max
(including Brazil r/s, MAXscript, Mental Ray and V-Ray), After Effects,
Combustion, Digital Fusion, Gelato, as well as support for 3Delight,
AIR, BMRT, Entropy, Maya, Photorealistic RenderMan, Pixie, and
RenderDotC. Support for Softimage XSI, Jig, Houdini and Lightwave is in
development. For extensibility and customization Deadline 2004 includes
two plug-in SDKs: a scriptable command-line plug-in SDK, and a full
featured C++ plug-in SDK.
Deadline 2004 is already garnering support among VFX tool developers
including Grant Adam, the distributor of the 3ds max render pass
manager, RPManager.
“Deadline has been great to work with. Time and again the developers
went out of their way to create the features I needed for seamless
integration.”
– Grant Adam, RPManager
Availability and Pricing.
Special SIGGRAPH 2004 introductory pricing is available until August 31, 2004.
