"You’re the Ones Making My Dream Possible” - How Guilherme Powers Big VFX Projects with GridMarkets
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Guilherme Casagrandi,
founder of HardcoreFX.
For the past 15 years, he has been working with Houdini, and for the last seven, running his own studio.
In this short but powerful interview, he explains how rendering with GridMarkets transformed his studio workflow, giving him the freedom to focus on creativity instead of technical bottlenecks.
"I don’t have the fear of growing my business anymore."
Why Render Farms Become Essential?
Even the most capable local render farms have limits. As Guilherme explains:
"When you’re delivering 50 to 100 shots, sometimes multiple projects at once, local farms get overloaded."
For studios under tight deadlines, these issues can slow production and limit growth. This is where GridMarkets’ cloud rendering becomes a game changer: scalable compute power, reliable job submission, and automated workflows let artists focus on what matters most — creating stunning visuals.
Faster, Smarter, Scalable Workflows
Guilherme’s team delivers high-volume projects efficiently:
3 sequences, 30 seconds each
~50 shots per sequence
Multiple layers per shot
Around 150 farm jobs
Completed in 2–3 weeks
“Submitting frames from the farm became something very simple. It didn’t take much of our time.”
As Guilherme’s team demonstrates, having the right Houdini workflow and cloud rendering tools allows even big VFX projects to be completed on time and without unnecessary stress.
With GridMarkets, large batches of jobs can be submitted in minutes, freeing the team to focus you’re-the-ones-making-my-dream-possible”-how-guilherme-powers-big-vfx-projects-with-gridmarketson simulation, animation, and lookdev, instead of monitoring renders.
Rendering became reliable. Predictable. Invisible.
From Technical Support to True Partnership
Guilherme highlights the impact of support and collaboration:
“You’re the ones making my dream possible.”
GridMarkets listens to artists, improves tools based on feedback, and provides reliable support, to allow studios to grow confidently, to take on bigger projects, and to focus on creativity rather than hardware limits.
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