Summary
Animation studios and special effects companies use massive banks of networked servers called "render farms" to convert their animation source files into the final CGI sequences you see in movies. They simply need the "CPU juice" to crank out their render jobs. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service brings utility computing to the masses and opens up the opportunity to create a virtual render farm service that would disrupt the existing entrenched big players with massive investments in hardware.
You can already use linux-based software like Muster and clone a bunch of virtual machines on the ECC service and render from any of the popular animation packages like 3ds Max, Lightwave and Maya. The trick here is to wrap the rendering software in an easy-to-use payment system and create a way to submit render jobs so that rendering from the 3d software is as simple as printing to a network printer.
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