“节点群（BON-I/O)”本是个物联网化的人工智能技术词汇。这里在媒体行业，是好莱坞视觉特效艺术家和动画导演克里格.托米先生提出的创新电影工业化资源整合（见2019年福州第六届丝绸之路国际电影节《中国电影视觉特效的工业化》论坛）。以经验和技术领军人为网络，以关键特长人才为节点，自适应地进入一个丰富的项目和资源互联网，带动现代多媒体时代的智能电影工业化。节点群发行公司在北美和亚洲就是电影虚拟制作的物联网，这个集群服务基于本土的影视制作，发行世界和中国的网络影视、及其衍生产品。
节点群发行合伙人公司由三家好莱坞公司组成：前沿科技顾问国际合伙人公司（2012），北肆拾畝设计公司（2002）和超越现实传媒公司（2010）,它的节点群制作团队，集合了300人年以上的好莱坞创作和制作经验，资深成员曾贡献近200部好莱坞电影制作，其中4次获奥斯卡最佳视觉特效奖（《小猪宝贝》《黄金罗盘》《少年派》《美梦成真》），并5次获奥斯卡最佳科技成果奖，5次威尼斯纪录片奖。2008年以来约翰休斯学院在亚洲和北美强化培训了1000+视觉特效人才，并雇佣了其中700+名。在2017-2019年，团队的成员贡献了中国视觉特效大片的制作（《疯狂的外星人》《流浪地球》《天火》《阴阳师》，任视觉特效制片、视觉特效总监、动画导演等，其中《疯狂的外星人》是中国大陆电影人首次导演虚拟角色的24亿人民币票房成功杰作）。
节点群经理合伙人（GP）羅晉与约翰.休斯合伙，在2015年创建了修思电影科技（北京）有限公司。约翰.休斯携节点群合伙人克里格.托米，琳达.华尔博士和羅晉在2019年与本地企业家合伙创建了约翰休斯视觉科技（宁波）有限公司，在中国发展视觉传媒、影视制作和职业教育。
节点群在2022年携约翰休斯学院（2014，洛杉矶、吉隆波、海得拉巴和温哥华）、载德轴心制片公司（2005，蒙特利尔）、北肆拾畝设计公司、狂野世界影视等，通过咨询纳斯达克上市的加拿大教育科技集团（科技、业务和经营），在加拿大发展职业教育与虚拟制作融合、培训-创作-制作-发行垂直整合的数字传媒和影视制作事业。
节点群的起点是在好莱坞自从有数字电影科技40年以来、与时俱进的经历和实践。当前重点发展北美数字传媒科技和影视制作。标的“以成熟和验证的技术赋能趋向性的新应用”。在北美的兴趣为：新型职教、虚拟制作、科技创新、知识产权交易。
节点群的特长在于科技和艺术的商务开发和建设，职业管理，创新艺术，由著名的影视和媒体艺术家和资深职业成员贡献前卫和实用的知识和智慧。发行驱动、科技创新驱动。总经理/总工程师羅晉，为加州理工学院计算机科学背景、20年政府科研项目的神经网络、视觉科技和芯片科研经验。创建并拥有前沿科技顾问国际公司（2011至今）。在北京曾创业北美发明的数字信号处理器芯片（美资2006-2011），创建中国科技发明的生物工程有机抗生素科技国际公司（美资2008-2015），开拓先进瑞士垂直飞行器的研制和中、美市场（西欧资金2010-2018）。2012年进入好莱坞电影特效行业，奉行节点群的科学发展模式，咨询技术和发展商务。
Visual Technology R&D: A cluster of team leaders and associates come together with:Film Engineering: Talents behind the pioneer Virtual Production Stage in London
Methodology & Pipeline: Veteran VFX production pipeline master, Unreal Game Engine user and developer
Visual Effect Supervisor:, Animation Directors and VFX Set Supervisors, Oscar Best Visual Effect Award & Best Technical Achievement Records
Biophysics: justifications of human vision, film shooting and display. by FTC Global, Las Vegas
Invention: JH Visual Tech in Ningbo, has termed virtual production as VR-RV（VR Realtime Visualization）. It takes the 2 previous proved approaches (2014 VR rides in Europe and Mideast and 2018 virtual shooting stage experiments)
Network Series Creators: of a Sci-Fi Network Series by North Forty, intended to be produced with Virtual production in a VR Realtime Visualization Methodology (VR-RV) by StudioX, along with Xiangshan Global Studios (XGS)
Multimedia System Integration: GSC Admin, Ltd. & MATRIX Systems, Ltd. Beijing
Virtual Production: 3 Key Elements
Resident Series Production: Team with capacity of Visual Effect Production –as this is a revolution of Visual Effect Production Pipeline.
Associates who contributed hands-on techniques in top facility: utilizing game engines, display drives, hand-hold computers and dedicated servo software. –skills for development
Along with a continuous project: Craig Talmy’s Red Darwin is to be resident in the stage, 3-season, 8-10-episode per season, for at least 3 years. –a content base-line incubator
(Hollywood, Las Vegas, Ningbo)
Theme Parks: For Themed Commercial & Entertainment Destinations, BON IO possesses a pool of talented designers and consultant who are skillful and meticulous to implement to survey the needs in applications cross continent. To structure a commercial-entertainment destination, BON IO team equips with analytical methodologies, formula and flows, can source, customize, design, program and modeling critical means of operation, marketing, administration and staff-training. Client projects led by Dr. Wall, the analyzer, trainer and hands-on programmer.
Themed Multimedia Mixed Reality (M³R) Facilities: Content deliveries: (1)Create; (2) produce; (3) License
Complete solutions of facility operation: tourist flow, themed commercial+entertainment functions, operation administration, modularized cost-revenue models, departments and employee training, management software and data management.
Full Capacity: One-stop Shop with solutions from content to facility, or a client can pick any segment of the production for contracted.
Three levels of scales: (1) commercial-entertainment facility; (2) amusement park; (3) theme park
Audience Orientations: (1) children and parents, (2) youth, (family)
Jenre: fairtale, venture, soaring
Creators and IP sources: 5 vendors, multiple Internationally popular film IPs, totally 50 sets.
Delivery: (1) theme development of major projects; (2) licensing and installing economic rides; (3) supplying a key and difficult segment of the delivery; (4) one-stop shop, turnkey solutions.
(Hollywood, Los Angeles, Xiangshan, Ningbo)
Films: BON IO | North Forty | Reel One: Film Distribution: BON IO is reach in media contents sources and global distribution channels. It has been accumulatively lectured in Korea to contribute its film artists entering the world market, worked on international TV & Series Festivals between Asia countries and Catalyst/Emmy award-winning associates, from Hollywood to Duluth, an international tradition of 15 years, 40+ sister cities world wide, the only US Periodical Filming Institute. BON IO’s current portfolio of network release to Asia consists: 200+ UK/Canada films, 55+ China network films, 20+ Turkey films. As well it represents under-development 6+1 North Forty original film/series. The team is led by Rosemond Perdue-Cranner, a veteran world media content distributor and producer. She received multiple awards being recognized as a influential blogger.
(Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London)
Gallery: Park8 Art Factory | Jaedi Graphics: BON IO facilitates renowned American pop fine artists collections to be replicated onto tourist merchandise in China. Its proprietary process technology is a special 3D Service Printing (3DSP) which made permanent and rugged printing on objects services. Many case it uses bamboo carbon composite, a new application of material science innovation. The art replicas are built durable, scratch-proof, water and moisture proof, without carbon volatilization like regular painting to protect exhibitors and collectors. Jaedi Graphics Gallery represents 20+ artists and their hundreds of artworks. The production is exclusively manufactured in limited editions in-house of Park8 Art Factory. (Los Angeles, Ningbo CiCheng)