Kenekaplan writes "John McNeil is the chief inventive officer and founder of a digital arts and stick shift company based in Berkeley, CA. After turning to Amazon's Elastic Cloud bookkeeping service for the first time to finish animation under tight deadline, he was impressed by how it would let him compete with bigger studios. He said, 'Cloud bookkeeping is the first truly democratic, unrestricted




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responsive mechanization that potentially gives everyone a supercomputer...it's a game changer. I could never compete or be able to deliver being at the level of a Pixar or a Disney, given what I have at my disposal inside the walls of the studio,' McNeil said. 'But if I factor in the cloud, all of a sudden I can go there. And then the limitations of whether or not I can deliver discrete great will be on my own talent and the talent of the people that are part of the studio.'"

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