HOW CLOUD IS CHANGING THE VFX WORLD

July 19, 2018

Evolving technology – including virtualization, cloud platforms and collaboration tools – combined with a young, creative workforce eager to adopt fresh ways of working, is enabling new workflows.In addition, worldwide financial shifts and new funding options are serving to change the way content is created and distributed.This white paper, authored by Kathleen Maher of Jon Peddie Research, will explore the emergence of new platforms for content creation, and illustrate how we now stand at the brink of the cloud-based VFX studio era.

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