The camera always lies: our change from a physical to a virtual studio

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Lexhag moves a decade of assets to AWS, migrating 170 TB migrated into S3 and Glacier Deep Archive, re-creating the on-prem pipeline in the cloud with FSx for throughput, EC2 spot instances for tiered rendering, and Thinkbox Deadline plus Autodesk ShotGrid for management. On-set data uses Amazon Snowball for fast ingest, artists run virtual workstations, and the studio delivers six shows delivered remotely, including over 130 VFX shots for The Pale Horse, with clients noticing no difference.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 15:46The Worry about Changing To Aws
3. 17:35Virtualized the Studio
4. 26:10Locations around the Norfolk Studio
5. 27:21Too Close

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