Luma Pictures Scales its render farm to the cloud with AWS for “Spider-Man: Far From Home”
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The article discusses how Luma Pictures, a visual effects studio, scaled its render farm to the cloud with AWS for the movie "Spider-Man: Far From Home".
Specifically, the article covers:
- Luma's approach to prioritizing technological innovation and automation to maximize artistic talent
- Their use of AWS Thinkbox's Deadline render management software to share render workloads between on-premises and cloud resources
- Their experience using Amazon EC2 instances for VFX work on "Spider-Man: Far From Home", finding the AWS C5 instances to be 30% faster than previous resources
- Luma's plans to move towards a full "Studio in the Cloud" workflow on AWS, with rendering, storage, and virtual workstations running in the cloud
- Luma's interest in collaborating with AWS on optimization features like globally distributed file systems and machine learning for data tagging and resource optimization
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