Specialized Cloud Services for Animation & Visual Effects

Capitalize on the flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiencies of the cloud to power your animation or visual effects (VFX) studio with our best-in-class cloud services. From virtual workstations to cloud storage and archives, media asset management, and cloud strategy, our consultants have the deep industry insights to guide your cloud journey.

Cloud Strategy

Take advantage of the scalable, reliable, and secure global AWS cloud, while significantly lowering your cost of operations.

Cloud Studio

You pay only for resources you use, with no need for long-term contracts or up-front commitments. Scale your usage up or down to any size in response to normal business cycles or unexpected events and projects.

Cloud Workstations

With virtual workstations, studios can quickly, securely, and efficiently scale up or down based on a specific project or time duration.

Cloud Connectivity

We have the experience and understanding to properly design, secure, and optimize connectivity to the cloud.

Media Data Pipelines

We utilize an end-to-end approach to secure and harden your infrastructure, both physical and cloud. We analyze your workflows and pipelines to maximize operational and software efficiencies.

Burst & Overflow Rendering

Using AWS, rendering no longer needs to be a bottleneck for creative studios to deliver projects on time. This ability means that studios can take on more work and render more projects at the same time.

Production Workflows

Our expertise applies a set of best practices for how to track and perform tasks throughout the workflow process ensuring the highest quality outcome while minimizing cost and impact on schedules.

3D & Image Processing

Retain the best image quality throughout a process and simultaneously minimize cost and impact on schedules. Know what is important to preserve and what is essential to avoid unnecessary costs.

Custom Development

We can provide custom development for a variety of needs to suit your environment, project or pipeline.

Atomic Cartoons Scales Creative Pipeline with AWS

Atomic Cartoons brings to life animated tales with creatives scattered across multiple locations, including Vancouver, Ottawa, and Los Angeles. Since 1999, when the studio was founded, rendering was done using its own co-located infrastructure, scaling up with rented nodes from local vendors during production peaks. However, with demand for content booming, the studio’s increased needs often Read more…

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Tribal Imaging Virtualises Post and VFX Production on AWS Compute Cloud

The work of artists at creative studio Tribal Imaging in Alberta, Canada often seems invisible to the untrained eyes of cinema and TV audiences – but that’s by design. From previs and matte painting to compositing and 3D tracking, the studio’s visual effects support the stories of feature films and episodic television series, most recently ‘Superman & Lois’ for CW, ‘Van Helsing’ on Syfy/Netflix, ‘The Order’, ‘Wu-Assassins’ and ‘I-Land’ for Netflix, and ‘Hell on Wheels’ on AMC. Tribal also carries out full post production services for short-form advertising and indie films.

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MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT

We analyze your workflow and systems to help design a well-architected framework that ties together creative processes across business units.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

With so many moving parts, our IT specialists create innovative, optimized IT solutions to improve productivity and security in your media environment.

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