{"id":7324,"date":"2018-08-20T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:46:35","slug":"google-builds-a-cloud-based-animation-studio-creates-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/google-builds-a-cloud-based-animation-studio-creates-on-the-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Google builds a cloud-based animation studio, creates on the fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google showcased its cloud-rendering &amp; collaboration chops by <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/inside-google-cloud\/robot-dance-party-how-we-created-an-entire-animated-short-at-next-18\">deploying a cloud-based animation studio<\/a>, enabling a creative team to design &amp; render this short over three days:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e8NSzYBts-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To demonstrate what\u2019s possible, we built an animated short over the course of three days.<\/p>\n<p>To do it, we invited some like-minded artists who share our vision to set up a live cloud-based animation studio on the second floor of Moscone Center. These artists worked throughout the three days of the show to model, animate, and render the spot, and deliver a finished short. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>We used Zync Render, a Renderfarm-as-a-Service running on GCP that can be deployed in minutes, and works with major 3D applications and renderers. The final piece was rendered in V-Ray for Maya.<\/p>\n<p>Zync is able to deploy up to 500 render workers per project, up to a total of 48,000 vCPUs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty dope\u2014though in my heart, these dabbing robots won\u2019t ever compete with my then-5yo son Finn as a dancing robot:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BFPM2eHDMwA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NewImage-16.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"343\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e8NSzYBts-Q\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BFPM2eHDMwA\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google showcased its cloud-rendering &amp; collaboration chops by deploying a cloud-based animation studio, enabling a creative team to design &amp; render this short over three days: To demonstrate what\u2019s possible, we built an animated short over the course of three days. To do it, we invited some like-minded artists who share our vision to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}