How FuzzyPixel Harnessed Cloud Tools To Create Its Short Film
From hand-drawn celluloid to real-time 3d workflows, animation techniques have advanced over the decades. With each new technological breakthrough, artists gain more powerful storytelling capabilities. Given the sudden, necessary focus on remote workflows in 2020 and beyond, the cloud has become a vital tool for studios and artists to meet delivery schedules and scale capacity to meet increased demand for content.
FuzzyPixel was born in the cloud. The animation studio’s core team of artists and producers, as well as freelancers, rigorously test Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology on real-world productions, collaborating remotely to create high-quality animated short films. The team’s work and findings shape the ongoing development of AWS services and features.
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.
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Today Blender Foundation announced that AWS has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development and innovation for Blender. AWS committed to a period of three years, specifically to support character animation tools development.
“We’re excited to continue to expand our support for open source solutions for our customers in the digital content creation space.” said Kyle Roche, GM of Creative Tools. “The Blender Foundation has been an industry leader in providing production-grade open source software solutions, and we look forward to helping our mutual customers work more efficiently than ever before through continued improvements in Blender.”