Asset Foundry for VFX & CG Pipeline TDs

What changes for you

A sequence lands whole or not at all

Nexus assembles frame sequences atomically with checksum verification on every file over Aspera or S3. A per-file delivery event stream tells you exactly what arrived, so you never feed the farm a shot that is quietly missing frames.

Routing that doesn't snap

Finished shots route into ShotGrid with their metadata attached, driven by explicit opt-in write paths, not brittle hand-wired hops you rebuild every time a schema shifts. The DAM stays the system of record; Nexus just makes sure it actually gets told.

A farm that feeds itself

Forge runs 13 job types across video, image, 3D, audio and documents on elastic GPU fleets that scale from zero to N and back to zero. ProRes and DNxHR transcodes, proxies and conforms run unattended, so no node gets babysat and no idle node sits on the bill.

See the plate without pulling it

Lens renders EXR, DPX and camera RAW previews plus legacy 3D turntables in the browser, no plate dragged off storage. Video previews read about 50x lighter than a full fetch in our tests, so scrubbing a fresh drop does not crawl.

Your part of the stack

The pieces that earn their keep for vfx & cg pipeline / pipeline tds.

Book the ones that fit your team, or the whole platform. Each shares one index.

Nexus

Checksum-verified ingest that assembles vendor plate drops and frame sequences atomically over Aspera or S3, streams a per-file delivery event so you can see exactly what landed, and routes finished shots into ShotGrid with their metadata attached. Write paths are explicit and opt-in, so a half-ingested sequence never reaches your conform and no hand-wired hop snaps under a schema change.

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Forge

13 job types across video, image, 3D, audio and documents on elastic GPU fleets that scale from zero to N and back to zero as the queue rises and drains. ProRes and DNxHR transcodes, proxies and conforms run behind one API backed by 60+ generative models, so the farm feeds itself overnight and idle nodes stop showing up on the bill.

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Lens

EXR, DPX and camera RAW previews plus legacy 3D turntables straight in the browser, no plate pulled off storage and no specialist seat. Video previews read about 50x lighter than a full fetch in our tests, so reviewing a full plate delivery does not drag the whole bay down.

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Gateway

A read-only console over every store, so you can search any ingest or delivery and get files back with their checksums and metadata. Recovery ops run with dry-run and undo, so when a delivery stalls at 2am you see exactly where it broke and roll it back cleanly, instead of re-running the whole batch and hoping it takes this time.

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A day in the life

One vendor drop, from Aspera to the render farm, with every frame accounted for.

STEP 01

The drop lands whole

A vendor plate push arrives over Aspera or S3. Nexus verifies checksums file by file, assembles the frame sequence atomically, and emits a per-file delivery event stream. The sequence is either complete or flagged, so nothing half-ingested slips through to the farm.

STEP 02

The farm feeds itself

Transcodes, proxies and conforms fire across 13 job types on GPU that spins up for the batch and scales back to zero when it drains. ProRes and DNxHR come out the far side behind one API backed by 60+ generative models, without a single node babysat.

STEP 03

Every shot routes itself

Finished shots route into ShotGrid with their metadata attached, while Lens serves EXR, DPX and turntable previews for review. Your conform starts against a delivery you can trust, not one you spot-check by hand or re-plumb every time the schema moves.

Questions

How do I know every frame actually arrived before I feed the farm?

Nexus ingests frame sequences atomically with checksum verification on every file, so a sequence lands whole or it is flagged before it reaches your conform. A per-file delivery event stream shows exactly what arrived over Aspera or S3, which means you never quietly transcode or conform against a shot that is missing frames.

Do I still have to hand-wire ShotGrid routing?

No. Nexus routes finished shots into ShotGrid with their metadata attached over explicit, opt-in write paths, so you stop maintaining brittle point-to-point hops that break the moment a schema moves. The shot and its metadata land together instead of the metadata going missing at the handoff.

Can I stop babysitting the render farm overnight?

Yes. Forge runs 13 job types across video, image, 3D, audio and documents on elastic GPU fleets that scale from zero to N and back to zero as the queue rises and drains. Transcodes, proxies and conforms in ProRes or DNxHR run unattended, and idle nodes do not sit on the bill after the batch clears.

Can I preview EXR and DPX without pulling the full plate?

Yes. Lens renders EXR, DPX and camera RAW previews, plus legacy 3D turntables, in the browser with no plate pulled off storage. Video previews read about 50x lighter than a full fetch in our tests, so scrubbing a fresh vendor drop stays fast even across a large delivery. The fastest way to see it on your own pipeline is the four-week pilot: one show, read-only, findings in your numbers.

Vendor drop to render farm,
without the hand-wiring.