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Meeting Deadline, again

Over in the Google side of the world, the acquisition of Thinkbox by Amazon has been consummated in the announcement of Thinkbox’s Deadline running on AWS. As Randall Newton reports in GfxSpeak, animation and design studio Tendril worked with the creators of Starz’s American Gods TV series. The Toronto based studios signed on to create a nearly five-minute animated sequence, ...

Kathleen Maher

Over in the Google side of the world, the acquisition of Thinkbox by Amazon has been consummated in the announcement of Thinkbox’s Deadline running on AWS. As Randall Newton reports in GfxSpeak, animation and design studio Tendril worked with the creators of Starz’s American Gods TV series. The Toronto based studios signed on to create a nearly five-minute animated sequence, and decided to use a new GPU rendering pipeline supported by Thinkbox Deadline and Amazon Redshift. GPU rendering is becoming more and more popular within the animation industry as new parallel algorithms allow modern GPUs to outperforming traditional CPU rendering.
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