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Multi-region workflows for Flame on AWS using Hammerspace
Scaling storage globally Building out a multi-site studio has traditionally been a challenging task for companies and productions. Driven by the need to win additional projects, hire world-renowned talent, or capture location-specific incentives, companies inevitably confront the realities of large-capital expenditures, forecasting for maximum size, and onboarding a large quantity of local IT staff. As […]
Multi-Region Rendering with Deadline and Hammerspace
Over the past few years, Visual Effects (VFX) studios have gone more global by opening satellite studios or hiring artists working from home all around the world. Whether the reasons are location specific financial incentives, unlocking local talent, or co-locating with a production team, having a render farm in a single location is no longer […]
AWS Artist Series: Compositing Spanner
This is the second post in our AWS Artist series. For more information, read the first post “Creating characters with dynamic wrinkles”. Nuke script from the short film Spanner Spanner is a short film about two bridge makers: Ulysse is an overly confident worker whose insecurities become very evident when he encounters Noa, a bridge […]
AWS Artist Series: Creating characters with dynamic wrinkles
Spanner is the story of two bridge builders, Noa and Ulysse. Ulysse is trying to learn from Noa, but he’s too proud and foolish to ask her directly. This leads to him inadvertently being tossed off of the bridge. Later, Noa saves Ulysse and then wraps him up and sticks him under the bridge as […]
How Winnie-the-Pooh sparked Method Melbourne’s journey to cloud rendering
Authored by Jon Stanley, Head of Systems of Method Melbourne. 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. If you’ve seen a blockbuster film in the last five years, you’ve likely witnessed the visual effects and […]
Watch now: Empowering users with natural language search featuring Dow Jones
Content creators face the ever-increasing challenge of cataloging content in a way that is easily accessible by users. Providing content relevant to a user’s search from vast archives of content requires a system that automatically provides the best match from the most relevant content. Using the Amazon Kendra machine learning service, the Wall Street Journal […]
Introducing new cloud-based creative studio Preymaker
The New York ad scene has received an infusion of technology-powered creativity with the official launch of Preymaker, which was recently announced following months of confidential production. Together with industry veterans Melanie Wickham and Verity Grantham, Preymaker is founded by Angus Kneale, former chief creative officer and co-founder of The Mill New York. Rather than […]
Weta Digital goes all-in on AWS
Future of filmmaking looks to the Cloud Founded by Peter Jackson in 1993, Weta Digital is a highly respected creative force, collaborating on visual effects (VFX) for some of the highest grossing blockbusters of all time, such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar. Having garnered six Best Visual Effects Oscars, 10 SciTech […]
Registration open for AWS NAB online event and virtual conference
AWS has launched two online events to bring you up to date on the latest media trends and technologies. First, join us April 20 and 21 as we share updates and announcements originally scheduled for NAB Show 2020. The AWS NAB News & Updates Online Event will highlight AWS services, new solutions, and stories from […]
AWS at the 2020 NAB show [Updated 3/12/2020]
Due to the NAB Show 2020 cancellation, Amazon Web Services will host two online events in the coming weeks to showcase our planned content for the exhibition: NAB News & Updates Online Event – On April 20, AWS will host an online event to spotlight updates planned for the NAB Show. AWS M&E Online Conference – On May […]