"Final Fantasy" Not So Final

This week, Hawaii-based company Pipelinefx will be hocking its wares in L.A. at SIGGRAPH, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. The company's flagship product is render farm management software Qube! Renderfarms are composed of rows and rows of computers that sit there and render 3D animation, special effects, and other computer graphics for films and interactive games.

Pipelinefx was founded in 2002 in the wake of the demise of Square USA, a company that spent over $2.5 million developing software to produce $150 million megaflop "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within."

Pipelinefx's customers include Electronic Arts, the world's largest game company, and Lucas Arts, the interactive game development and publishing company founded by George Lucas.

>> Pipelinefx seeks its next clients in L.A. [Pacific Business News, 7/31/05]
>> FLASHBACK: Final Fantasy movie studio to close [Death Fall, 2/4/02]
>> FLASHBACK: Tech firm Square USA closes Honolulu studio [Hnl Advertiser, 4/2/02]