With content production moving to remote models, the ability to work flexibly and scale easily is more important than ever. This shift has driven facility owners and content creators to look to the cloud for everything from virtual workstations to remote rendering and storage. Together with creative studio partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a two-day event featuring five webcasts that offer first-hand best practices and production-proven insights on how to successfully leverage the cloud for visual effects and animation workflows.

Being held August 26- 27, the series will kick off with a state-of-the-industry keynote, followed by feature presentations from Untold Studios, Hive VFX, and Cinesite, as well as a virtual roundtable discussion with NVIDIA and Tangent Studios. The sessions serve as an extension of AWS activities at virtual SIGGRAPH 2020, all of which aim to help content creators tap into the power of the cloud.

Sessions will begin each day at 8am PDT for the Americas, EMEA and Africa, and 10am IST for APAC, and run back-to-back. For a full schedule overview and to register, visit: https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-OE-Digital-Content-Creation-on-AWS-2020-reg-event.htm

Following the event, sessions will be available to registrants for on-demand viewing. 

Agenda

Day One: Wednesday, August 27

  • Keynote: Digital content creation on AWS

Learn how to scale your studio by running virtual workstations, rendering, and storage workloads on AWS, and discover tools that help studios iterate faster, hire the best talent, work remotely, and deliver for clients. 

  • Industry firsts: How to launch a new creative studio, entirely on the cloud

Untold Studios details how it’s pushing the boundaries of technology by operating completely in the cloud (and experimenting with Unreal Engine) so that its teams can focus on creative endeavors without operational distractions.

Day Two: Thursday, August 28

  • Hive VFX: Automating virtual studio deployment on AWS to enable global collaboration

Get a deep dive from Hive VFX on Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation, serverless and event-driven architecture with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway, and how to use these services to deploy a HPC environment featuring G4 instances, FSx Lustre File Systems, and EC2 Spot Fleets via AWS Thinkbox Deadline.

  • Cinesite tells all: How cloud rendering can revolutionize VFX & feature animation workflows

Hear how Cinesite uses cloud rendering tools to reach new levels of visual complexity and detail in their work and meet increasingly tight schedules and get a sneak peek at upcoming projects, including family adventure-comedy “EXTINCT” and scenes from “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.”

  • Virtual workstations: The new must-have studio essential

Join AWS, NVIDIA, and Tangent Studios for a discussion moderated by Randi Altman of postPerspective, on virtual workstations, how they work, who is using this technology today, and how working remotely will continue to evolve and influence content production.

Sessions will also be made available via the SIGGRAPH 2020 virtual platform.