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AWS does the heavy lifting for Tangent Animation on Netflix film “Next Gen”

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This article discusses how Tangent Animation utilized AWS services to render their Netflix film "Next Gen" and meet tight deadlines. Specifically, it covers:

  • Tangent Animation's use of AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to scale rendering resources, completing 65% of the film's rendering on AWS
  • How AWS Snowball enabled quickly transferring over 100TB of data to AWS servers
  • Benefits of using AWS, including faster iteration, improved workflow, and cost savings compared to on-premises rendering
  • Tangent's plans to further leverage AWS for their entire production pipeline and future projects
  • The article highlights AWS's role in enabling creative flexibility and scalability for media productions with demanding requirements


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