The making of the animated short "Spanner"
summary
AWS internal studio FuzzyPixel produces a 2–3 minute animated short entirely in the cloud using provisioned virtual workstations, asset pipelines and AWS services, onboarding freelancers in a single day and running daily reviews with SyncSketch. Character rigging and animation use Maya with rig controls, clothing and rope solved by nCloth during a back‑and‑forth sim/animation loop, and final lighting and compositing tie to a single environment concept. Production runs remotely in 2020 and withstands wildfire evacuations. cloud workstations provisioned via AWS nCloth rope simulation SyncSketch time‑based reviews
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:47Concept Artwork
- 11:01Character Animation
- 13:53Environment Design
- 14:30Animation
- 15:34Blocking
- 18:01Clothing
- 18:53Onboarding
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