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382 points brundolf | 1 comments | 02 Jan 21 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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banana_giraffe ◴[02 Jan 21 21:38 UTC] No.25616781[source]▶
One of the things they mentioned briefly in a little documentary on the making of Soul is that all of the animators work on fairly dumb terminals connected to a back end instance.

I can appreciate that working well when people are in the office, but I'm amazed that worked out for them when people moved to work from home. I have trouble getting some of my engineers to have a stable connection stable enough for VS Code's remote mode. I can't imagine trying to use a modern GUI over these connections.

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1. dagmx ◴[02 Jan 21 21:46 UTC] No.25616858[source]▶
A lot of studios use thin client/ PCoiP boxes from teradici etc..

They're pretty great overall and the bandwidth requirements aren't crazy high but it does max out your data usage if you're capped pretty quickly. The faster you can be, the better the experience.

Some studios like Imageworks don't even have the backend data center in the same location. So the thin clients connect to a center in Washington state when the studios are in LA and Vancouver.