Rhythm & Hues has always placed great value on creating its own tools and workflows. When they declared bankruptcy last year, a list of all their proprietary software applications was made public in court documents. Here is that list:
Voodoo - Animation, Rigging, Matchmove, Crowds, Fur grooming, Computer Vision.
Icy - Rotoscoping, Paint and Compositing.
Wren - Renderer.
Rampage - Environment projection system.
Crom - Light Comp, Lighting Workflow and next generation VFX software platform.
Eve - Multi-resolution, collaborative digital dailies and review system.
Anvil - R&H’s oranizational tool for plugins for Crom (and potentially other software platforms).
AHAB - Academy award winning fluid simulation technology.
Ocean Tools - Proprietary tools for generating water and fluid effects.
Jobtracker - Distributed production management system.
Snarf - Global trouble ticketing.
LoUIE - Global information distribution system.
Merlin - Online media reference library and archive.
Scheduler - Online room and video conference scheduling system.
TaskTrack - Timesheet management system.
HRIS - Human Resources Information System.
Node/Asset System - Artist Workspace and digital asset system.
Queue - Academy award winning render farm management software.
Wired - Asset distribution technology.
Unibrowser - Software to manage this asset system.
PTS - Replicated production tracking database.
PTSFS - Database driven POSIX-like global namespace.
CacheFS - Proprietary version of CacheFS
DDR/HSM - Custom storage system that contains all reviewable material submitted since 1996.
Delorean - R&H version of time machine - backup system.
Swamp - Proprietary storage system for 2K playback solution.
