Thinkbox Software, makers of Deadline, Krakatoa, and many other software tools, have announced they have been acquired by Amazon Web Services. In an email sent out to customers, Thinkbox representatives stated, “We’re excited to announce that we’ve been acquired by Amazon! We’ll be joining the Amazon Web Services family, and we’re looking forward to working together to deliver exciting customer offerings.” More details on this acquisition can be found on the Thinkbox Software website.
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I wonder if this is going to tie in Lumberyard or if there’s some other part of the equation we’re not aware of..
I really hope amazon is making ‘deadline’ affordable now and integrate it perfect to be used with EC2 instances.
because right now… vray rendernode is already 350$ add 245$ for deadline. that is 595$ per node. (now with node rental that might be better) add the AWS pricing is a lot of money for rendering. talking just one node.
Thinkbox sell on demand deadline render node rentals at ten cents per node per hour. You can buy it in blocks as you need it. I use it on the Amazon cloud all the time.
Didn’t know 🙁
i see it’s on the bottom of their pricing page. I wasn’t told about it when i asked a while back. maybe it wasn’t available then. but thx for the heads up.
Thank god its not Autodesk…
I dream with them making Deadline free for small renderfarms (around 20 nodes) and integrate an easy way to hire EC2 nodes for increasing the number of nodes available! 🙂
I wish Amazon would buy 3ds Max at this point.
LOL, I don’t know my bulls*** meter is spiking when they talk about exciting customer offerings.
Still, better than Autodesk’s drunken, clumsy attempts to imitate Adobe.
‘Hold my beer’ indeed.
Good for them! I’ve since moved over to Houdini, but these guys deserve all the best. Their support and tools were honestly the most rock solid part of using Max. When I moved to Houdini, I genuinely felt guilty that I wasn’t going to be a customer anymore. Congrats!
Hear, Hear! Right.