WandW opened this issue on Oct 16, 2013 · 24 posts
wolf359 posted Wed, 16 October 2013 at 1:35 PM
**"Bluetooth mouse and keyboard solves that." **
No....Not for high end CG & graphics production
IMO No sane Visual Effects Company with the $$$Contract$$$ to do the CG/VFX for a Major motion picture would trust some "remote application service" with critical rendered Final frames of CG/VFX shots with their critical Final shot delivery dates pending.
One hour two internet outage could literally cost millions when suddenly 1200 frames of layered EXR's in need of compositing, are stuck "in the Cloud" while your ISP fiddles about.
Not to mention the fact that most CG companies don't actually use "off the shelf"software mentioned so proudly in the linked article.
Butindeed have in house programmers to write on the spot extensions of the the capabilities of high end suites Like MAYA,Houdini etc through their various scripting abilities.
They also employ massive team collaborations via "File referencing" that enables multiple artists to simultaneously work on the same scene and have their changes update the master scene via their own(usually linux based) CLOSED Local networks
I am not saying this idea/service is a non starter
but it would NOT be a solution for many Industries where RAW Computing power is not the only consideration in production
Cheers