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Fire Up Your Virtual Studio Gunpowder Ignite is a combustive mixture of technology, simplicity, and affordability that’s sparking a creative studio revolution.
We are an experienced team of systems integrators who are helping some of the world’s top creative studios virtualize workstations and render in the cloud.
Services
Our Services
Gunpowder has a support plan for any scenario, because we’re a technology partner, not just a help desk. We will tailor a solution to your situation, catered to the lifestyle stages of your business.
What We Offer

  • Infrastructure and support
  • Render and render management
  • Pipeline consulting
  • Cloud migrations
  • Cloud billing analysis
  • Application server installation
  • License server installation and support
  • On-Site and remote support
  • Technical consulting
  • Software configuration and installation
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EMPOWERING A GROWING VFX COMPANY TO WORK EFFECTIVELY FROM ANYWHERE
Tom Taylor (Founder of Gunpowder Tech), Buzz Hays (Global Lead Entertainment Industry at Google Cloud) and Ranjit Catelino (HP’s Global Alliances & Partner Sales Leadership) have a virtual fireside chat to discuss how the VFX world has changed over the past three years.
They discuss how the biggest players in the industry are leveraging Google Cloud and HP Anyware to navigate the remote/hybrid work scenario, as well as, cover topics like the pros and cons of cloud vs on prem, security concerns with cloud and what cloud looks like from a financial perspective.
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Scaling for the Super Bowl How Gunpowder Helped House of Parliament and Its Global Workforce Deliver 9 Commercials for Super Bowl 2024 in Just One Month
2024 Gunpowder was founded in 2021 to deliver cloud-first, creative experiences and to help legacy creative visual effects (VFX) studios accelerate their transition to dynamic cloud-based operations and workflows. The goal for Gunpowder is to free production teams to concentrate on delivering their best creative work, by taking care of the cloud infrastructure and management.
House of Parliament, a boutique VFX studio born in the cloud during the pandemic, worked with Gunpowder to support 9 projects simultaneously during the 2024 Super Bowl season. The team more than tripled in size to accommodate the increase in work, involving over 300 artists, 2 PB of data, and thousands of hours of rendering—all over the course of just six weeks.

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2024 Reduce Costs By Bringing Your Technology into the Future webinar 
2024 Blending Advanced Tech with Art for an Unprecedented Digital Experience 
Gunpowder Cuts Digital Rendering Time and Cost Google Cloud Instances With 4th Gen Intel Xeon Cpus Accelerate Rendering Performance Compared To Previous Instances.
2023 To say that digital visual effects (VFX) had an impact on movie making would be a tremendous understatement. Digital VFX was a paradigm shift. It introduced entirely new ways to tell stories and provide viewers new experiences. From Star Wars to the latest Avatar movie, with each new evolution of the technologies behind digital VFX, movies (and television, streaming, gaming, commercials, digital art—all motion media expressions) give the artists behind digital VFX creative ways to take us to new worlds.
Whether at home, in the gallery, or in the theater, viewers want rich experiences. That means taking the next digital VFX project to a new level. And that requires computing—sometimes enormous amounts of computing. Yet while news headlines often boast how movie budgets have gone sky-high, effects budgets are still tight, competition among effects studios to produce them is fierce. The cost and efficiency of the computation behind the effects must follow suit.

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Optimizing Cloud Resources is the Key to Digital Agency Profitability Post-Production Profitability is All About the Cloud
2023 In today’s rapidly evolving post-production industry, digital studios find themselves at the forefront of a new era.
Gone are the days when physical studios dictated the boundaries of creativity...

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Picture this: How media companies can render faster - for less - with cloud-based NFS caching
2023 Content creators are by nature unique. So it should come as no surprise that content creation companies also have unique needs - especially when it comes to building out the infrastructure they need to deliver their work on time, and on budget.
Gunpowder works with all manner of creators - advertising agencies, Visual Effects (VFX) studios, media, and even individual artists - to help them configure the compute, storage and networking capacity that powers their ideas, both on-premises and in the cloud...

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2022 Empowering a Growing VFX Company to Work Effectively from Anywhere 
2022 Gunpowder Reinvents The Wheel by Mobilizing VFX workstations In The Cloud. 
2022 Customer Success Story - Gunpowder solves technology challenges for studio clients 
NetApp Enterprise cloud storage makes online VFX studio's growth go “boom!”
2022 How do you get VFX artists from all around the world collaborating together on an animated feature in the middle of a global pandemic?
It’s a good question right? And that’s how Gunpowder was born...
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2024 Reduce Costs By Bringing Your Technology into the Future webinar 
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2023 Gunpowder Cuts Digital Rendering Time and Cost 

2023 Optimizing Cloud Resources is the Key to Digital Agency Profitability 

2023 Picture this: How media companies can render faster - for less - with cloud-based NFS caching 

2022 Empowering a Growing VFX Company to Work Effectively from Anywhere 
2022 Gunpowder Reinvents The Wheel by Mobilizing VFX workstations In The Cloud. 

2022 Customer Success Story - Gunpowder solves technology challenges for studio clients 

2022 NetApp: Enterprise cloud storage makes online VFX studio's growth go “boom!” 
Careers
TECHNOLOGIST
OVERVIEW As a Technologist at Gunpowder, you will have the opportunity to work closely with top-tier creative clients, supporting a diverse range of technologies.

Gunpowder aims to break the traditional mold of systems integration by fostering strong relationships built on trust, common sense, and technical excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Interface directly with customers to address various technical, workflow, and creative issues, enabling them to focus on their core expertise.
  • Work with a diverse clientele, including large multinational corporations and individual creative professionals, each facing unique challenges.
  • Provide support for cloud platforms.
  • Perform administration tasks for Linux, Windows, and OS X systems.
  • Develop and maintain scripts using Python & BASH
  • Offer expertise in VFX pipelines, workflows, and creative suites to provide efficient solutions.
  • Implement and maintain remote solutions, such as PCoIP, to support clients.
REQUIREMENTS

  • Strong working knowledge of working with Cloud Providers.
  • Proficiency in Linux, Windows, and OS X systems administration.
  • Intermediate to advanced Python & BASH scripting skills.
  • Familiarity with VFX pipelines, workflows, and creative suites.
  • Strong knowledge of scale-out systems, including render farms, storage, compute, and networking.
  • Experience with remote solutions, such as PCoIP.
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