AWS Thinkbox

AWS Thinkbox Deadline is a hassle-free hybrid administration and compute management software for Windows, Linux, and mac OS based render farms, supporting more than 80 different content creation applications out of the box.

The center of your pipeline, DEADLINE

AWS Thinkbox Deadline is a hassle-free hybrid administration and compute management software for Windows, Linux, and mac OS based render farms, supporting more than 80 different content creation applications out of the box.

Deadline Benefit

Highly scalable

Managing assets moving from on-premises to cloud workloads can be problematic. Deadline comes with a file system that automatically syncs asset files to Amazon S3. To help ensure that all of the appropriate assets are available in the cloud, Deadline synchronizes with local servers and manages the data transfer before rendering begins, tagging accounts and instances for bill allocation.

Usage based licensing

Flexible third-party licensing options enable Deadline customers to purchase usage-based software licenses (UBL) for your preferred applications from the AWS Thinkbox Marketplace, bring your own licenses, or leverage a combination of the two to grow render farms elastically with Amazon EC2.

Optimize costs

Your studio can optimize its costs by using Deadline and leveraging the compute power of Amazon EC2 compared to adding more physical infrastructure, networking, and people to run it. With EC2 Spot Instances, you can reduce your costs even further with savings of up to 90% compared to On-Demand pricing. Using Spot allows you to optimize the costs of rendering applications while increasing overall capacity.

AWS Portal Integration

AWS Portal is designed for users looking to create a hybrid farm of on-premises and cloud nodes or set up a render farm entirely on the cloud. Once your rendering pipeline is integrated with AWS, you can scale rendering workloads to hundreds, or even thousands of cores in minutes, and you can also scale down just as quickly, providing incredible compute elasticity and cost control.

Render Farm Deployment Kit

With RFDK you can leverage the programming languages you are already familiar with, such as Python, to build, customize, and deploy your render farm on AWS. After the render farm is deployed, you can use the AWS CDK tooling to maintain, update, and version your deployments.

Deadline Tools

Jigsaw

Jigsaw is a Deadline tool that allows users to split up large frames into arbitrary sized tiles and distribute them over your render farm. When the tiles are finished rendering, they are automatically assembled into the final image using Draft. Specific tiles can be re-rendered and automatically composited on top of the original image. Jigsaw is available for 3ds Max, Houdini, Maya, modo, and Rhino.

Draft

Draft is a lightweight compositing and video processing tool designed to automate typical post-render tasks. The Draft plug-in for Deadline automates the creation and processing of QuickTimes, thumbnails and other deliverables in a pipeline. Automate your pipeline, and spend more time making art and less time making QuickTimes!

AWS Thinkbox Product

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