“A Fully Cloud-based Global Visual Effects Studio” by Carey and Vanns
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Entry Number: 72
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- A Fully Cloud-based Global Visual Effects Studio
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Recently, visual effects (VFX) companies have been increasingly developing hybrid cloud solutions with the majority of core infrastructure remaining on premises and secondary compute in the cloud. This has the obvious benefit of allowing ‘bursting’ into the cloud, but does not take full advantage of the cloud’s dynamicity, and usually incurs high egress costs to retrieve data. We present a fully cloud-based global studio, using open source and custom software and highlight the opportunities available with this novel approach to both infrastructure and VFX pipeline.
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Acknowledgements:
To Amazon Web Services, for their encouragment and support on this project and particularly their expertise in the EC2 Spot Market.
