It takes a great story telling and a clear vision to produce Warehouse 13, but it does help to have the right crew using the right tools, too.

Clint Green and Darren Cranford, co-founders of Keyframe Digital Productions (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada) work on the Syfy Network’s latest series, Warehouse 13. The show is about two Secret Service agents who work at a government storage facility in South Dakota’s Badlands. The facility is where the government keeps a large number – seemingly endless – of supernatural relics.

Keyframe uses standard PC hardware with 64 bit, dual quad core processors and over 5 terabytes of storage to produce the CGI shots for the show. According to Eric Harvey and Darren Locke, software engineers for Keyframe rendering takes somewhere between two and three minutes per frame. There are between thirty and 500 frames in a shot, and 150 to 180 shots every ten days.

According to Darren Cranford, “We’re used in...read more