The firm, co-founded by former DreamWorks head of character animation Jason Schleifer, provided the blueprint for the new service in the shape of its own pipeline-in-the-cloud offering, Nimble Studio.Įqually importantly, Amazon probably has the timing right, given the recent explosion of interest in cloud-based production brought about by the need for artists to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() That includes renderfarm management developer Thinkbox Software, which Amazon bought in 2017 – and, most pertinently, Nimble Collective, which it acquired last year. However, AWS has been building up to the launch of Amazon Nimble Studio steadily, through a series of acquisitions of key technologies on which the new platform is based. The service launched in 2018, but closed the following year. VFX tools developer Foundry had a go with Athera, its short-lived studio-in-the-cloud platform, which offered a similar mix of services, plus software rental, collaboration tools and analyics. ![]() The system is priced on a per-use basis, with no other upfront or subscription fees, with Amazon estimating a cost of around $11,000/month for a virtual studio with 25 users.Īmazon Nimble Studio forms part of AWS for Media & Entertainment, Amazon’s new inititative unifying its services for visual effects, animation and general DCC content creation work, also announced yesterday.Īmazon isn’t the first major industry player to launch an all-in-one cloud-based production platform. Nimble Studio workstation Amazon Machine Images come with Blender pre-installed, and users can connect existing floating licences of commercial DCC tools, including Adobe, Autodesk, Foundry and SideFX apps. The platform provides users with access to Nvidia-based virtual workstations, shared cloud-based storage, and integrated online renderfarm management based on AWS’s Thinkbox Deadline. Posted by Jim Thacker AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animationĪmazon Web Services has launched Amazon Nimble Studio, a new all-in-one cloud-based production platform that enables VFX and animation firms to set up a complete studio in the cloud.
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