Category: AWS Deadline Cloud

In less than three years, French startup Animaj made a name for itself in media production for kids. The company, founded in 2022, specializes in transforming intellectual property (IP) into bite-sized programming for 2-9 year-olds around the world. Animaj taps 3D animation vendors to deliver content for Pocoyo, Kidibli, Hey Kids, and Rabbids Invasion. It […]

Rendering in tiles can reduce the memory footprint when rendering large images for outdoor advertising or high-resolution entertainment. Tile rendering is a workflow that aims to optimize render resources by splitting large images into evenly sized smaller regions to be rendered in parallel, minimizing rendering time and memory usage. Using the powerful tools Amazon Web […]

This blog was authored by Gunpowder, LLC. Creating an integration for your DCC with AWS Deadline Cloud? One word: templates. Introduction In the world of creative media and visualization, rendering is a crucial step that brings artistic visions to life. However, the process of integrating various creative tools and renderers into a unified rendering pipeline […]

AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables you to have a scalable, fully managed visual compute farm up and running in minutes. Executing render jobs for digital content creation (DCC) applications like Blender, Houdini, Maya, and Nuke can be a rapid, turnkey experience with Deadline Cloud Sevice-Managed Fleets […]

Traditional on-premises render farms often pose significant operational challenges, including hardware procurement, software licensing management, and scalability constraints. However, in the rapidly evolving world of visual effects (VFX) and animation, efficient rendering pipelines are vital to meeting tight deadlines and delivering high-quality content. This is where AWS Deadline Cloud comes into play, offering a fully […]

Open Job Description (OpenJD) is a new open specification introduced by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in January, 2024 that makes job submissions portable across any rendering pipeline. OpenJD includes three Python libraries and tools packages that anyone can use to create integrations with their render pipeline. Openjd-cli provides a command-line tool to develop and run […]

NAB Show 2024 may have come and gone, but at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re still full of excitement. From the West Hall to South Hall of the LVCC and everywhere in between, the AWS for Media & Entertainment (M&E) team and technology were out in full force. To top it off, three of our […]

Authored by Lisa Brodie, Founder and Producer at  RedToast. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. RedToast started as a small production consulting company run by founder and producer Lisa Brodie. As it grew, the company saw how […]

AWS Deadline Cloud is a scalable, fully managed render scheduler from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for teams that need a better way to create ground-breaking visual content. To power the elastic workloads creative teams require, Deadline Cloud organizes Workers into Fleets. The Workers run Jobs given to them by Queues, which are collections of Jobs […]

New open standard aims to make render jobs portable across any rendering pipeline Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduces Open Job Description (OpenJD), a new, flexible, open specification for defining render jobs to be portable between studios and render solutions. Render pipelines can vary widely depending upon project, technology, and administrative decisions. OpenJD is designed […]