How Amazon Nimble Studio Harnesses The Cloud To Speed Up Animation Production
Animators have long had to rely on local high-performance workstations connected to shared file storage systems and powerful render farms to create their work. Amazon Nimble Studio virtualizes content production infrastructure, allowing artists and studios to scale compute resources based on project needs, and to easily collaborate globally.
Remote production technology has been essential for studios to continue creating this past year, and with the rise of solutions streamlining a path to the cloud, traditional brick-and-mortar setups may never be the same. Kyle Roche, head of content production technology at Amazon Web Services (AWS), helped oversee the development and launch of Amazon Nimble Studio. Below, he shares how the new service came to be and what it means for artists.