We provide the infrastructure, automation, and applied AI behind the world's most ambitious creative work.
Studios are asked to produce more, move faster, cut costs, find global talent, and keep the work flowing. Gunpowder builds the cloud, render, workflow, and AI systems behind it.
Build the working studio in the cloud. Workstations, storage, review, identity, licenses, applications, and artist access, arranged around the way the shop already works.
Cloud workstations, centralized storage, license and application servers, remote review, artist onboarding, identity and access.
Add render capacity when the job demands it, tune the instance mix, cache the data close to compute, and keep the bill tied to actual output.
CPU and GPU render, spot capacity strategy, render orchestration, knfsd caching, instance benchmarking, cost tuning.
Documented with Google Cloud on knfsd caching and with Intel on render economics.
Remove the manual drag between ingest, artist work, review, delivery, asset search, and vendor access.
Pipeline consulting, workflow rebuilds, asset movement, review flows, vendor portals, search and tagging.
SoFi Stadium's post-game workflow dropped from eight hours to thirty minutes.
Put AI into the parts of the workflow where it changes the outcome: upscaling, tagging, detection, search, verification, and creative compute at scale.
Computer vision, generative image workflows, metadata automation, sponsorship detection, GPU and TPU workloads, human-in-the-loop review.
Sphere and SoFi Stadium show the range: petabyte-scale image work and live venue media operations.
House of Parliament / Super Bowl 2024
House of Parliament took on nine Super Bowl spots in six weeks and scaled its artist base 4x. New artists were working in thirty minutes.
"Gunpowder has been able to scale our operations globally and allow us to do things we previously thought impossible."
Same capabilities. Different blast radius.
A piece outruns the local studio, and the deadline leaves no room to rebuild the pipeline from scratch.
Gunpowder brings render burst, AI compute, and storage strategy.
Refik Anadol's "Coral" at Davos. Urs Fischer's "CHAOS #501."
More work than the current footprint can carry, and the operation has to expand without breaking artist flow.
Gunpowder brings cloud workstations, render and storage, and artist onboarding.
A spike that forms a team overnight, with late creative changes that keep moving through the pipeline.
Gunpowder brings rapid team setup, asset movement, and delivery workflow.
Apple, Taylor Swift, Coca-Cola, Squarespace, Tiffany, Lay's.
The venue becomes a media system. AI has to make the archive searchable and the operation smarter after the first show.
Gunpowder brings computer vision, searchable media, and immersive compute.
SoFi Stadium. Sphere. The Wizard of Oz.
Sphere Entertainment / The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
Petabyte-scale image work for the dome, with a venue-wide media operation behind it. The archive becomes searchable. The operation becomes smarter after the first show.
View all work →Gunpowder was founded in 2020 by Tom Taylor, a former production CTO who spent two decades inside the studios he now serves. The company today is a senior team of cloud engineers operating across five cities on four continents, running infrastructure for some of the most ambitious creative work being made, from solo artists to full stadium scale.
The work is the proof. The team is small on purpose. The mission is one line, and it has not changed since day one.
"We make technology invisible so creators can focus on creating."
