Packages like Maya, Cinema 4D, Nuke, and After Effects are all familiar to you, and you probably use at least one of them in your day to day. You might have some local storage but probably aren’t using a render farm just yet.

With Sherpa, freelance artists are able to use cloud-based rendering solutions without the risks of ‘fire and forget’ services. The render farm you spin up is yours and no one else's.

If you need a workstation that’s accessible from wherever you are then it’s as easy as the push of a button. Need eight GPUs? No problem. Working with a small team of collaborators? Give them access to your working files in a AAA secure environment.

And if you need a workstation that exceeds the performance of your own system you can easily spec it out and use it for exactly as long as you need, allowing you to pitch for jobs that would normally be out of reach.

And if you choose to grow your business, Sherpa can scale along with you.

Whether you’re two people or two hundred, scalable infrastructure is key to your success - and for it to be entirely familiar is a massive bonus. By using Sherpa small businesses around the world are able to grow elastically as their workload demands.

Maybe your team is expanding, or you could be bringing on temporary freelancers. Perhaps you need additional render power to complete a current project. By using Sherpa from Escape Technology small creative studios can compete on a wider stage. Spin up workstations, render, and storage to match your needs and spin them down again when you’re done.

Sherpa enables you to manage your costs and your resources without the challenges of capital expenditure.

By leveraging the power of the cloud businesses are able to benefit from a global pool of talent. Sherpa is able to give you the ability to onboard and work with artists and creatives all over the world, as well as locally.

Expand your existing infrastructure with top of the range new workstations, render, and storage without affecting your physical footprint. Keep your servers off site for an efficient, clean and secure workflow; while maintaining complete control over your pipeline from end to end.

Sherpa delivers a scalable, fully owned, cloud-based solution that enables your engineers to deliver a best in class service to your creative teams.

Sherpa from Escape Technology is a cloud aggregation tool developed by engineers with decades of experience in visual effects and content delivery. It uses a unique approach that enables users to operate a fully functioning cloud-based pipeline: workstations, storage, and render. What makes it unique is its ability to operate in the same way that onsite infrastructure does; giving you total control over what software you install and how you work.

All you need is an internet connection, monitors, and a zero client (for example, Teradici) and you can get up and running in no time. No costly machine rooms, no noisy workstations, simply push pixels from the cloud to your artists and back up again.