Built Different by Puget Systems

Built Different by Puget Systems goes inside the studios, labs, and workspaces of people who are redefining what's possible in their industries. Every guest has pushed past what's expected in their field. This is a show about that pursuit, and the role the right tools play in making it possible.We make the machine. You make the magic.For Episode 2, hosts Nicki Sun and Houston Bennett sit down with Shawn Herold, President of Form Studios, and David Stapp, their Director of Virtual Production.Form Studios runs LED volume stages, cinema robotics, motion capture, and a full Unreal Engine cinematics team out of three locations (Buford, Atlanta, and LA) while trusting Puget Workstations across every stage for the past year and a half.Shawn and David open up about how they rebuilt their entire Siggraph activation from a ten-camera, multi-rack setup down to a single Puget Mobile laptop in one year, how assistive AI has helped them move away from third-party software, and what two and a half years of pushing their hardware past its "limit" has actually taught them about where that limit really is.Learn more about Form Studios at www.formstudios.com______________________________________________________________________About Puget SystemsPuget Systems blends the roles of system integrator, consultant, and workflow expert to provide our customers with tailor-made workstations and servers built to handle their most demanding workloads.We operate across a wide range of industries, with particular specialties in Media & Entertainment, AI & Machine Learning, and Engineering.Learn more at www.pugetsystems.com

Built Different by Puget Systems goes inside the studios, labs, and workspaces of people who are redefining what’s possible in their industries. Every guest has pushed past what’s expected in their field. This is a show about that pursuit, and the role the right tools play in making it possible.

We make the machine. You make the magic.

For Episode 1, hosts Nicki Sun and Houston Bennett turn the mic on their own boss. Jon Bach founded Puget Systems in December 2000 to help pay for college.

Twenty-five years later, he sits on Intel's Board of Advisors, and the company he built out of a house near SeaTac now powers VFX pipelines, scientific research, and some of the most demanding workflows in the industry.

Jon talks about hand-building systems nobody else would sell, the four values that quietly run the company (mission, relationships, transparency, quality), why Puget Labs publishes benchmark data for free, and his take on where AI hardware is actually headed.

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About Puget Systems

Puget Systems blends the roles of system integrator, consultant, and workflow expert to provide our customers with tailor-made workstations and servers built to handle their most demanding workloads.

We operate across a wide range of industries, with particular specialties in Media & Entertainment, AI & Machine Learning, and Engineering.

Learn more at www.pugetsystems.com