Sci-fi short “Europa,” written and directed by Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal, is the Entertainment Technology Center’s latest project to test the expanding possibilities of virtual production and remote collaboration. To call “Europa” a cloud-first production is to rethink filmmaking from the ground up. This wasn’t just a distributed team working online — it was an ecosystem where every workflow, from previs to final VFX, operated entirely in the cloud. It wasn’t a workaround; it was the foundation. And powering that foundation — every tool, every task, every decision — was AWS. ...
Each of these applications was independent in capability but interconnected through AWS. The cloud didn’t just host files but made them usable, searchable, and actionable across the globe. Collaboration became code. Infrastructure became intelligence. And the architecture itself became a creative enabler. ...
As we move to a cloud-based workflow, the archive becomes the source of truth — not a final resting place but a live, queryable system of record. ...
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