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Rendering on AWS with Deadline 10


Thinkbox + Deadline Overview

• Thinkbox was formed in 2010 as a company focused on creating software for visual effects and computer graphics.

• Acquired by Amazon Web Services in March, 2017

• Creators of Deadline, Krakatoa, X-Mesh, Frost, Sequoia and more

• Deadline enables compute resources to be shared between artists and departments across applications and platforms.

• Can be used to render, simulate, encode, run recurring tasks, move data, process, install applications, and more.

• On-premise, Cloud and hybrid workflows are supported.

The best of Thinkbox and AWS – infinite scale & no more rendering pain!


Distribute frames of animation to render across multiple instances or machines.

What is Rendering?

Break apart a single frame and render it across multiple instances or machines.

Deadline can support 1000s of concurrent tasks on as many instances as you want.

Rendering allows us to convert 3d scenes into 2d images


Deadline – Hybrid Rendering lets you scale elastically

• On-Prem, Hybrid, Cloud rendering

• Scale easily with the AWS Portal

• Thinkbox Marketplace

• Write your own custom plug-ins

• Integrates with existing pipelines

• Global scale and reach

• Flexible consumption economics

• Broad set of cloud services

• Elastic infrastructure on-demand

The best of Thinkbox and AWS – infinite scale & no more rendering pain!


Render At Global Scale

16 regions (+6 announced)

44 Availability Zones (+17 announced)


Why choose Deadline?

• Cross-platform, cross-cloud compute management system.• Manage tens of thousands of jobs across physical and virtual machines.• Over 90 applications supported out of the box.


Thinkbox Marketplace

“Usage-based licensing is the licensing model of the future. We only pay for what we need, when we need it and not a minute longer. Deadline gives us the flexibility to instantly scale up

and down at the click of a button.” – Gavin Greenwalt, Straightface Studios

• Per-minute Software licensing for on-prem and/or cloud installed software in most cases.

• Customers purchase hourly bundles of ‘render time’

from the Thinkbox Marketplace.

• Products only consume purchased time when rendering.

• Flexibility of using on-demand licenses and existing

licenses together.


Cloud Scale Rendering with AWS Portal

Studio On-Premise AWS Cloud

Deadline R ender N odes

Assets

Asset F ile Server

Deadline Databaseand R epository

DeadlineApplication Server

Deadline AW SR ender N odes

Asset Sync Service

SecureC onnection/

D irect C onnect


Monitor


GPU Affinity


Deadline - Draft

Lightweight compositing and video processing tool designed to automate typical post-render tasks.

§ Flexible Python API§ Draft Standalone <import draft>

• Images or Video

• Composite

• Resize / Crop

• Connect to Shotgun / ftrack / NIM

• Convert

• QuickTime – H264, MPEG4

• Slates


Deadline - Jigsaw

• Allows the rendering and assembly of arbitrary rectangular regions.

• Split a high-resolution image across multiple machines, vary region sizes according to scene detail, render speed and memory constraints.

• Re-render discrete changed areas of an already rendered image.

• Preview multiple regions of interest without rendering the whole image.


AWS Portal DEMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niaQ1OWimoIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3IA3sOIB4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q87oVNhZto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niaQ1OWimoI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3IA3sOIB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q87oVNhZto


Customer: Barnstorm VFX and Theory Studios

Problem Statement:• Size and Scale of work was largest VFX project to date• Shots delivered in 4k but rendered at 8k with some at 16k-20k

• Multi-gigabyte per-frame sizes• Distributed artist model required collaboration across USA

Use of Thinkbox Deadline & AWS:• On-prem rendering combined with AWS on-demand rendering

• Thinkbox Marketplace for usage-based licensing to allow software to scale to 100’s of instances

• Deadline ‘Jigsaw’ non-uniform tile rendering to break the large

renders up into smaller sizes and automatically stitch together

Business Benefits: • Collaboration across USA• Massive scalability and elasticity of licensing and rendering turned

a 1000 days of rendering into 4 days

• Low cost – high quality

The Man in The High Castle

Man in the High Castle, Season 2 VFX courtesy Barnstorm VFX and Theory Studios


Thank you!

Questions?

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