SIGGRAPH 2021
2021-08-09..2021-08-13
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SIGGRAPH ·
[SIGGRAPH 2017, SIGGRAPH 2018, SIGGRAPH 2019, SIGGRAPH 2021]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The future of visual effects | Ryan Cunningham, Ed Mendez | 29m |
Boutique VFX studio migrates from on‑prem workstations and hardware Teradici to AWS virtual machines and a cloud render farm, switching to software Teradici… | ||
| Through the looking glass - the next reality for content production | Eric Iverson | 51m |
Cloud production is framed as three concrete shifts: NetFX deployed in 4 continents across 35 productions proves global pipelines and hiring talent anywhere… | ||
| Deep-dive - introducing Amazon Nimble Studio | Corban Gossett | 30m |
Amazon Nimble Studio is a managed AWS service that provisions virtual workstations, shared cloud storage and an auto-scaling render farm so studios move… | ||
| Content creation under a new creative paradigm from on-premises to cloud | Mark Knowles | 25m |
Taylor James migrates its New York HQ from aging on‑prem hardware to a full AWS cloud implementation in about six weeks, replacing MPLS and tapes with a 30 TB… | ||
| Pushing innovation and accessibility with real-time and the cloud | Angus Kneale, Miles Perkins, Ken Nakada, Erin Dusseault | 35m |
Panelists describe a working pipeline that replaces on‑premise farms with rentable GPUs and cloud workflows, letting teams spin up experiments, run AI renders… | ||
| The making of the animated short "Spanner" | Jen Dahlman, Rex Grignon, Haley Kannall, Jason Schleifer | 25m |
AWS internal studio FuzzyPixel produces a 2–3 minute animated short entirely in the cloud using provisioned virtual workstations, asset pipelines and AWS… | ||
| The camera always lies: our change from a physical to a virtual studio | Sandy Heslop | 30m |
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… | ||
| Controlling Production Costs | Eric Iverson, Robert Keske | 06m |
Company 3 reports migrating a team from 25 to 65 artists and growing monthly business from mid six digits to low seven digits by moving pipelines to AWS… | ||
| Global Production | Eric Iverson, Laura Teclemariam, Rahul Dani | 06m |
Netflix describes a cloud-based content pipeline deployed across four continents, 35 productions that lets artists anywhere join work on titles like La Casa de… | ||
| CG Community | Eric Iverson, Haley Kannall | 04m |
AWS announces concrete community commitments: becoming a patron of the Blender Development Fund, joining the Academy Software Foundation to back open source… | ||
| Accelerating Content Production Pipelines | Eric Iverson | 06m |
Claims a sustained content demand rising ~12% CAGR over five years and argues production needs more artists and infinite cloud compute. Describes a procedural… | ||
| Amazon Nimble Studio | Eric Iverson, Rex Grignon | 08m |
Nimble Studio builds a reusable cloud pipeline so animation and VFX teams can connect artists worldwide and run production without becoming IT shops. The… | ||
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