3FX - 3D Life Science Animation & Effects

3FX is housed in a completely designed and engineered studio that provides a comfortable, creative and efficient production environment.

A wide range of specialty software running on a large complement of Windows XP Pro and Mac OSX systems allows our team to provide for any visual need you may have.

Each of our custom workstations provides maximum efficiency, large processing capacity and fast interactivity for our animators. Hardware and software packages are constantly upgraded or renewed based on current technologies.

Individual workstations contain various combinations of 3D animation and visual effects software: Maya, 3D Studio Max, and Cinema 4D 3D software, Combustion and After Effects compositing and image manipulation packages, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and a huge host of plug-ins and other various support programs.  Everything our team needs to produce their best work. 

A render farm allows a multitude of options when processing our imagery.  These rendering units are designed to process huge amounts of data, enabling highly complex and detailed visualizations in efficient timeframes.  All units can operate individually, in groups, or as a single, huge processing station, providing cost and time savings.

Our Non Linear Digital Editing system is connected to an array of high speed Fiber and SATA Drives, providing real-time speed for quality, efficient and creative editing.  It is here that animation, narration, music, sound effects, video, and visual effects are combined into the final product.  Whether 4:3, 16:9. High Definition, Stereoscopic, or Fulldome Polar masters, this system does it all.

All project data from individual workstations is backed up on a nightly basis.  A facility–wide data backup is performed weekly; assuring no data is ever lost.  Final project data and imagery is archived for future updates and revisions.