The future of visual effects
summary
Boutique VFX studio migrates from on‑prem workstations and hardware Teradici to AWS virtual machines and a cloud render farm, switching to software Teradici for lower latency. Pipeline runs Nuke, SpeedTree and traditional CG set extensions and simulations. Cloud lets the studio scale from ~25 to 90+ artists, deliver 1800 shots in 90 days at 6K with multi‑layered plates, render over 16 million frames across 110,000 jobs, and ship work on The Bite (Spectrum), Mayor of Easttown and Old.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Powerhouse
- 1:47VFX production showcase
- 4:54Pre-pandemic operations
- 9:22Adapting to the pandemic
- 13:59Scaling with cloud technology
- 19:00Production case studies
- 23:54Future of VFX workflows
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