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BITS & PIECES SOHONET EXPANDS VFX PIPELINE PARTNERSHIP WITH BIND STUDIO LONDON — Sohonet (www.sohonet.com), a developer of collaboration and connectivity solutions for the media & entertainment industry, is expanding its partnership with LA-based Bind Studio (www.bind.studio), a leader in visual effects production technology. Bind Studio's full platform is now available through Sohonet, giving productions a single, trusted route to each compo- nent needed to set up and run a VFX pipeline. The expansion builds directly on the strategic partnership the two compa- nies established in the spring of 2025, which integrated Sohonet's FileRunner and ClearView Flex into the Bind platform as its file transport and realtime review engine. Those integrations have seen use on major film and television productions, including Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story, where Bind Hub and Sohonet's FileRunner powered an automated review workflow handling up to 350 VFX shots per episode. Setting up a VFX project has traditionally meant assembling infrastructure, storage, software, transfer tools, review tools, rendering and hiring the exper- tise to hold it all together. The expanded Sohonet/Bind partnership simplifies that into a single decision. Productions can now go from greenlight to a work- ing team in days, not weeks or months. Workstations, storage, pipeline, render- ing, secure file transfer, vendor submission and frame-accurate remote review are all delivered as one solution, with one point of contact and one relationship to manage. There is no hardware to procure or infrastructure to build. For Bind Studio, the expanded partnership brings the platform to Sohonet's global customer base and enterprise sales, marketing and support infrastruc- ture. For Sohonet, it completes the picture, as the company's Media Fabric and ClearView customers can now add a full VFX production environment to the same relationship. Bind Hub is the data management and vendor collaboration layer — the connective tissue between a production and its VFX vendors. Powered by FileRunner, Bind Hub automates the submission, tracking and distribution of shots between vendors, VFX production teams and editorial. It is available from a lightweight, software-only tier that runs alongside a production's existing infrastructure, up to a fully-managed data solution that carries a show from the first day of prep to the last day of post. Bind Studio is the turnkey VFX production environment — workstations, storage, a production-ready pipeline and rendering — delivered as a com- plete package. Built on deep integrations with Nuke, Houdini, Flow Production Tracking and AWS Deadline Cloud, and enhanced with ClearView Flex for remote review, Bind Studio enables a VFX team to be up and working in days without procuring a single piece of hardware. LaVant Consulting, the disability-centered consulting firm, and creative studio Where The Buffalo Roam (WTBR) teamed up to launch All in Frame (www.allinframestock. com), a free stock- photo collection led by disabled creatives. The library is designed to give marketing, advertising and creative professionals the tools needed to tell authentic stories about disabilities. The collection features people across a broad range of ages, races, genders, professions and life experiences in authentic everyday settings.