Even if it was, the act of transferring terabytes of confidential content over slow residential internet connections would make the home-studio setup futile and dangerous.
Obviously, setting up a render farm in each artist’s home is completely unfeasible. This includes, deadline render farms, secure VPN connections, a dedicated pipeline for sharing files between artists, and processing greater than what most artists had at home. With the aggressive push towards remote work, studios across the world had to adapt and bring the resources offered by brick-and-mortar studios to the artists working from home. The cloud is changing the way studios operate. May 2021: The month I accepted a 6 figure VFX contract with a 3-week turnaround.
