<p>James Kennedy was a founding member of the Centre for Unified Computing in University College, Cork, where he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2004. During the course of his research he worked on distributed systems of various kinds, focusing on automating business processes on grid and distributed computing systems. He founded Rendicity in 2010 to address a gap in the 3D animation market. After over two years of customer engagement and product development, Rendicity officially launched their rendering solution, which allows studios to harness on-demand cloud render farms. Blender is supported both as a modeling tool and render engine.</p>