“Cartoons in the Cloud” by Lien, O’Brien and Savidge
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Entry Number: 54
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- Cartoons in the Cloud
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The SparkShorts program at Pixar Animation Studios allows for di- rectors to try new and different looks. Our short, Twenty Something is a 2d, hand-drawn animated film. When the pandemic forced all of our artist to work from home, we scrambled to create a workflow for managing, sharing, and reviewing 2d assets. While we have a long history of collaborating on 3d films, we did not have a solution for 2d imagery.
We created a cloud-based pipeline based around on-premises bucket storage, microservices, and event-driven workflows. The result was Toontown, a suite of technologies that allowed our artists to complete Twenty Something working from home.
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