AWS at SIGGRAPH 2022
Content production in the cloud, at scale
AWS participated in SIGGRAPH 2022 with two booths on the show floor that featured cloud-based content production workflows and integration with technologies from our AWS Partners, as well as a one-day thought leadership track titled AWS Innovators. We recorded AWS Innovators content, which can be found below.
AWS Innovators
Session Recordings from the AWS Innovators track
Content production in the cloud, at scale
Hinged on the cloud: Animal Logic’s "Unhinged" trailer using Nimble Studio
Diving deep: AWS infrastructure for Animal Logic’s "Unhinged"
Innovating for the artist experience
Storytelling from the AWS Cloud
Love, death, and Tim Miller: Lessons from production
How Cloud Technology Contributed to creating the Virtual Production on Star Trek and Beyond
Innovative pipelines with AWS and Wacom: Creating 3D animated feature films
Rethink creativity: Empowering artists with remote production pipelines
Building and maintaining a strong culture while hiring artists globally
The making of "Picchu"
AWS INNOVATORS
Meet our speakers
Hear from AWS Partners and customers in the AWS Innovators session track.
James Braid
Head of Engineering, Scanline VFX
Rick Champagne
Industry Strategy and Marketing, Media & Entertainment, NVIDIA
Liviu Constantinescu
DevOps Lead, Animal Logic
HaZ Dulull
Co-Founder, HaZimation Studios
Ian Failes
Editor, befores & afters
Cris Fudge
Production Designer, FuzzyPixel, AWS
Darin Grant
CTO, Animal Logic
Ray Gumti
Cloud Engineer, Framestore
Haley Kannall
CG Supervisor, FuzzyPixel, AWS
Angus Kneale
Founder and Chief Creative, Preymaker
Gretchen Libby
Director of Visual Computing, AWS
Jens Lindgren
CG supervisor, Important Looking Pirates VFX
Gary Major
Head of Engineering, Wētā Digital / Unity
Tim Miller
Founder, Blur Studio
Antony Passemard
GM of Creative Tools, AWS
Stephanie Pocklington
VFX Supervisor, Animal Logic
Arash Roudafshan
VP of Technology, Bardel Entertainment
Aidan Sarsfield
Head of Production Technology, Animal Logic
Jason Schleifer
Creative Director, FuzzyPixel, AWS
Jeff Shapiro
Director of Production Strategy and Resource Planning, Netflix
Doug Smith
Industry Specialist BD Leader, AWS Visual Compute
Paolo Tamburrino
VFX Producer, Pixomondo
Nina Walsh
M&E Business Development Leader A/NZ, AWS
Amaru Zeas
"Picchu" Writer and Director, FuzzyPixel, AWS
AWS Partners
Demos from AWS Partners
AWS Partners that participated in our booth at SIGGRAPH 2022
Arch Platform Technologies
With Arch, instantly spin up powerful cloud-based digital content creation facilities for virtual production, game design, asset creation, visual effects, post-production, animation, and more.
Autodesk
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our solutions are used to create all kinds of amazing things—from the hottest games to the biggest blockbusters.
Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design creates post-production, digital film camera, video converter, monitoring, router, production switcher, recorder, waveform monitor, and film scanner products.
Conductor
Take your rendering to the next level and get the most out of the cloud today with Conductor. Shrink the render crunch and hit that deadline. Stress less, render more.
DeadDrop Labs
DeadDrop Labs helps VFX, animation, gaming, and post-production studios harness the power, flexibility, and cost-efficiencies of AWS for their specific needs.
Epic Games
Epic Games is the interactive entertainment company behind Fortnite. Founded in 1991, Epic transformed gaming with the release of Unreal Engine—the 3D creation engine powering hundreds of games now used across industries for real-time production.
Foundry
Creators of pioneering software for creative industries. Tacklers of complex visualization challenges.
Isotropix
Isotropix is the maker of leading 3D content creation and rendering software Clarisse, used globally to create stunning, award-winning content for film, games, and visualization.
Maxon
Maxon makes powerful, yet approachable, software solutions for content creators working in 2D and 3D design, motion graphics, visual effects, and visualization. Maxon’s innovative product portfolio helps artists supercharge their creative workflows.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges ordinary computers cannot. Today, our work in AI is transforming 100 trillion dollars of industries—from gaming to healthcare to transportation—and profoundly impacting society.
SideFX
SideFX is the Academy Award–winning developer of Houdini—the 3D procedural software for VFX, character FX, crowds, rigging, animation, lighting, layout, lookdev, modeling, and rendering.
TrackIt
TrackIt specializes in animation and VFX cloud workflows incorporating Amazon Nimble Studio, AWS Thinkbox Deadline, and Hammerspace backed by Amazon FSx and Amazon S3.
Triumph Tech
Triumph Tech provides high performance compute render farms and studio in the cloud solutions for media, product, and game tech companies.
Wacom
Wacom is the global leader in the pen display and tablet market for creative users. Our products are used in movie production, industrial design, comic book creation, and beyond.