When Academy Award winning Blue Sky Studios
isn’t busy creating sci-fi characters for films
like Star Trek: Insurrection or singing,
dancing cockroaches for cult classics, such as
Joe’s Apartment, it stays occupied writing and
directing film shorts, like Bunny, which won
the 1999 Academy Award for Best Animated
Short Film.
Using the sophisticated technology, radiosity,
which mimics the subtle properties of light,
Bunny highlighted both the company’s filmmaking
ability as well as its technology, and Blue
Sky wanted to showcase these capabilities to a
broad audience. But the studio faced a major
dilemma: how to deliver its award winning film
short to a global audience? That’s where Globix
stepped in.
Globix already had a relationship with Blue Sky as a
supplier of 3-D animation and compositing systems as
well as Dedicated Access to the Internet, so the
decision to turn to Globix for a streaming media
solution was the next logical step. As a leading
provider of streaming media services, Globix knew
it could solve Blue Sky’s dilemma with an integrated
approach. The solution would include everything the
studio needed to deliver its broadcast, on demand,
to a worldwide audience over the Internet.
Utilizing Globix Corporation’s streaming expertise,
equipment and facilities, the Streaming Media
Group provided an all-in-one solution that
included production and encoding as well as
archiving the streams for on-demand viewing
and broadcasting them from our
state-of-the-art Internet Data Center.
The strategy paid off and the online broadcast
was a success. It attracted thousands of viewers
from as far away as Australia and Japan and
achieved Blue Sky’s vision of showcasing its
capabilities worldwide. At Globix that’s how
we measure our success—by our ability to help
clients realize their goals. By calling 1
(877) 7-GLOBIX or inquiring online, we can help you achieve
yours, too.
