Learning Objectives: - Run rendering workloads on EC2 Spot with a few clicks with Deadline - Be cost effective with running your rendering workloads - Learn to use usage based licensing for applications such as Autodesk Maya, 3dsMax and Arnold

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Chhaya Pandey
October 11, 2017
Rendering on AWS with
Deadline 10

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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!

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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

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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
• Broadest set of cloud services
• Elastic infrastructure on-demand
The best of Thinkbox and AWS – infinite scale & no more rendering pain!

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Why choose Deadline?
 Cross-platform; Hybrid and Cloud compute.
 Works at scale: Used everywhere from product rendering to Blockbusters!
 Over 85 applications supported out of the box.
 Ease of use

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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.

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Cloud Scale Rendering with AWS Portal
Company/ Studio On-Prem AWS Cloud
Deadline Render
Nodes
Assets
Asset File Server
Deadline Database
and Repository
Deadline
Application Server
Deadline AWS
Render Nodes
Asset Sync Service
Secure
Connection/
Direct Connect
• Simplify instance launching and management via the Deadline Monitor
• Automate asset detection and synchronization to cloud instances
• Work with existing pipelines, tools, application licenses, and processes
• Use metered licensing for Deadline and 3rd party content creation applications
• Choice of render software that one can use
• Integration with Maya, Nuke, 3DSMax and 80+ other applications

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Rendering Challenges - Cloud Benefits
AWS helps you adapt your media
storage and compute needs
Handle unpredictable &
bursty media needs
Only pay for compute,
storage, and transfer you
use
Global availability instantly,
with no commit
Focus your resources on
your media needs
Ability to expand a renderfarm
for quick turnaround.
Cost Pressures Content Growth Peak Demand
Competitive Pressures Global Market Core Competency

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Render At Global Scale
16 regions (+6 announced)
44 Availability Zones (+17 announced)

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AWS Pricing models
Spot - Reduce your operating costs by up to 50-90% compared to
On-Demand instances
Reserved Instances -Provide a significant discount (up to 75%)
compared to On-Demand pricing
On Demand -Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the
hour with no long-term commitments

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Deadline - Draft
 Lightweight compositing and video
processing tool designed to automate
typical post-render tasks.
Images or Video
Composite
Resize / Crop
Connect to Shotgun / FTrack / NIM
Convert
QuickTime – H264, MPEG4
Slates

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Deadline - Jigsaw

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GPU Affinity

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Monitor

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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
Scaling to meet The Man in The High Castle
Man in the High Castle, Season 2 VFX courtesy Barnstorm VFX and Theory Studios

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Deadline Day
• $10 off Deadline 10 yearly license ($48 to $38)
• 10% off all products in Thinkbox Marketplace
• AWS Credits and discounts on specific partner products.
For details, please visit: http://deadline.thinkboxsoftware.com/

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