Studio in the Cloud

Visual Effects | Design | Editorial | Game Development | Education

Studio in the Cloud (SitC) by Six Nines is a fully functional, cloud-native, production-ready, digital content creation studio/solution delivering GPU accelerated virtual workstations, high-speed file systems, and render farm orchestration. Studio in the Cloud provides both entire post-production “all-in-cloud” processing, as well as hybrid-cloud integration with existing on-premises services.

Cloud Access

Empower your artists, producers, and studio managers to easily leverage the latest cloud technologies.

Enable your next production project with a simplified and secure studio platform. Rapidly deploy GPU accelerated virtual workstations with a few clicks, fully loaded with your creative applications, custom tools, and project environments. Connect to virtual workstations from any location and virtually any device.

Launch the world’s most popular, high-performance file systems on-demand, without the need to over-provision or maintain expensive server infrastructure. Manage storage costs effectively with automated data-tiering strategies, project segregation, and archival solutions, all under one service. Quickly ingest massive amounts of footage from production shoots and securely transfer assets to/from 3rd party vendors and clients with production-proven solutions.

Take advantage of powerful, spare cloud compute instances at a significantly reduced cost to scale your render capacity during peak demand. Avoid licensing shortage with Usage Based Licensing (UBL), available for several industry-leading creative applications and render plugins.

Webinar:

Creating the Ideal Design Studio for Remote Game & VFX Artists

Gaming design studios have been exploring ways to embrace a more remote workforce over the past several years. The pandemic has accelerated this trend, where studios were forced to provide workers remote access to the high-end workstations needed to do their jobs. As the pandemic slows, studios are seeking to learn from the lessons of the past year to help formulate a more permanent strategy to support remote workers.

Join Six Nines, Teradici and AWS as we address lessons learned and best practices for creating the ideal design studio for a remote workforce.

Features & Benefits for Media & Entertainment

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Lower IT requirements, lower IT overhead

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Quantify production costs per project

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MPAA/CDSA/TPN compliant ready

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Reduce time-to-production

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Pay-as-you-go (OPEX vs. CAPEX)

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Integration with existing infrastructure

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Global deployment flexibility

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Available managed services & ongoing support

Client Data, Separated & Secured

Client Data, Separated & Secured

Security is paramount in the cloud. Studio in the Cloud can be fine tuned for any client compliance requirement.

Unpredictable Workloads

Unpredictable Workloads

Rapidly provision your next production with virtually limitless workstations and render worker capacity in minutes, not hours or weeks.

Mobility & Accessibility

Mobility & Accessibility

Bring the studio to your client or next production shoot, access your environment securely from any location, on any device with an internet connection.

Global Workforce

Global Workforce

Leverage diverse, creative talent around the world.

Virtual Workstations

Virtual Workstations are cloud-based, GPU accelerated virtual machines (VM), leveraging the latest generation of GPU hardware available. PCoIP technology delivers a low-latency, full-desktop experience to artists anywhere, on any device, including peripherals such as Wacom tablets.

Provide your artists with a powerful desktop experience and give them the ability to work from any location and any device. Rapidly deploy GPU accelerated virtual workstations with a few clicks, fully loaded with your creative applications, custom tools, and project environments. Connect to virtual workstations from any location and virtually any device. Significantly reduce the amount of time required to add new workstations, update workstations with new applications, and troubleshoot technical issues.

Virtual Workstations
High-Speed File Systems

High-Speed File Systems

Launch the world’s most popular, high-performance file systems on-demand, without the need to over-provision or maintain expensive server infrastructure. Manage storage costs effectively with automated data-tiering strategies, project segregation, and archival solutions, all under one service. Quickly ingest massive amounts of footage from production shoots and securely transfer assets to/from 3rd party vendors and clients with production-proven solutions.

Render Farm Orchestration

Scale your render capacity during peak demand with spare cloud compute instances at significantly reduced costs. As an industry-recognized render manager, AWS Thinkbox’s Deadline is leveraged to provide out-of-the-box feature-rich components and tight integration with AWS Services. Usage-based licensing is provided through Thinkbox’s Marketplace as a way for studios to scale their render capacity quickly while avoiding licensing shortages. (We always recommend customers update and use the latest Deadline version.)

Whether native or hybrid, Cloud rendering aims to solve several challenges customers have all faced, either with on-prem render farms or using third-party rendering services like Pixel Plow, Render Rocket, and Zync. Some of these challenges include:

  • Slow turn around times on support tickets
  • Huge time/power/space requirements to scale physical data center compute capacity
  • Inefficiently syncing data with third-party render services
  • Licensing shortages

Our render farm orchestration solutions allow customers to take control of their cloud rendering environment through several easy-to-use tools, workflows, and out-of-the-box features provided by Deadline.

Render Farm Orchestration

Over 80 Applications Supported

Adobe Creative Cloud
Arnold
Autodesk
Blender
Cinema 4D
Foundry
Houdini
Maxwell
Redshift
Substance
Unreal-Engine
vRay

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Studio in the Cloud

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