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Amazon Nimble Studio: The story so far
AWS invested in content creators in a big way in 2021 when it launched Amazon Nimble Studio, a new service that empowers creative studios to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content from storyboard sketch to final deliverable, entirely in the cloud. With over 50 AWS services under the hood, Nimble Studio helps content creation professionals […]
Streaming sessions API for Amazon Nimble Studio
Introduction Amazon Nimble Studio empowers creative studios to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content entirely in the cloud, from storyboard sketch to final deliverable. Studios can rapidly onboard and collaborate with artists globally and create content faster using access to virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and scalable rendering across Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) global infrastructure. […]
Public Preview: Nimble Studio introduces faster startup times with volume persistence
Today, Amazon Nimble Studio announces preview availability of faster workstation startup times and simplified workstation management for administrators with persistent volumes. While customers enjoy Nimble Studio for its fast deployment, many have asked for faster login times and the ability to save changes made to the root volume. As of today, this is now possible. […]
Streaming sessions view in Amazon Nimble Studio
Introduction Amazon Nimble Studio empowers creative studios to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content entirely in the cloud. Studios can rapidly onboard and collaborate with artists globally and create content faster using access to virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and scalable rendering across Amazon Web Services (AWS) global infrastructure. Using the streaming sessions view included […]
AWS Artist Series: Optimizing the environment with foliage
Find the other posts in the AWS Artist series below: AWS Artist Series: Compositing Spanner AWS Artist Series: Creating characters with dynamic wrinkles AWS Artist Series: Animating Noa AWS Artist Series: Rigging the bridge for “Spanner” AWS Artist Series: Laying out the opening shots of Spanner AWS Artist Series: Creating an ocean of clouds Project Spanner […]
AWS Artist Series: Creating an ocean of clouds
This is the 6th post in our AWS Artist series, find the other five below: AWS Artist Series: Compositing Spanner AWS Artist Series: Creating characters with dynamic wrinkles AWS Artist Series: Animating Noa AWS Artist Series: Rigging the bridge for “Spanner” AWS Artist Series: Laying out the opening shots of Spanner Spanner Noa’s silhouette hanging from […]
Explore remote production with AWS Partners at SIGGRAPH
In response to the exceptional demand for remote collaboration and virtual production, studios across the globe have shifted to cloud-based workflows for animation, visual effects (VFX), rendering, and editing. On-demand access to virtual workstations, elastic high-speed file storage, and scalable render farm capacity allow studios to scale up (and down) to meet project demand, onboard […]
Build a digital studio-in-the-cloud with Amazon Nimble Studio and WekaIO
Authored by Barbara Murphy, Vice President of Cloud at Weka. 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. Cloud-based media and entertainment storage workflow solution Imagine if a Formula 1 driver had to be their own […]
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 […]
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 […]