Using Maya Backburner for Rendering on Amazon EC2

Jud Pratt recently posted a bunch of video tutorials on how to render from Autodesk Creative Products to the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (Amazon EC2), and even more recently he has posted a tutorial on how to render from Maya to the Amazon EC2 Cloud for a fairly cheap rendering solution.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

GreenButton also provides cloud rendering support for any cloud based service, including Maya, so be sure to check out the GreenButton interview I conducted from a previous post here. Also check out the other videos Jod has on Backburner’s general use and other Autodesk applications in the same context…