{"id":165532,"date":"2023-04-05T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=165532"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:26:49","slug":"the-future-of-production-amplified-moving-middle-earth-to-the-cloud-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-nab-amplify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/the-future-of-production-amplified-moving-middle-earth-to-the-cloud-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-nab-amplify\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Production Amplified: Moving Middle Earth to the Cloud with \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d | NAB Amplify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NAB Amplify <\/em>\u2014 April 5, 2023
The Future of Production Amplified: Moving Middle Earth to the Cloud with \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of our series, \u201cThe Future of Production Amplified,\u201d NAB Amplify<\/em> content partner Jennifer Wolfe chats with producer Ron Ames about the fully cloud-based workflow for the first season of Amazon Prime Video\u2019s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ames is an industry veteran with post-production credits going back to 2003, when he was enlisted by VFX supervisor Rob Legato to assistant direct and produce the visual effects for Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Aviator<\/em>. Since then, he has worked as a VFX producer, post-production supervisor, and first assistant director of special units on more than 20 productions including Avatar<\/em>, The Departed<\/em>, Star Trek Into Darkness <\/em>and Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, and Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his current role as producer on The Rings of Power<\/em>, Ames oversees all the technical departments from camera capture to exhibition. The Lord of the Rings<\/em> franchise is known for its award-winning visuals that have pushed the art and science of visual effects, which meant that the stakes were high for the first season of the first episodic to emerge from Middle Earth. From the very beginning, the production team understood they would need an end-to-end cloud-based workflow to complete the first season, which contained a whopping 9,164 VFX shots shared among 12 global vendors and 1,500+ artists located all around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we are the first production to be fully cloud-based intentionally from the beginning,\u201d Ames says, detailing the workflow and the impact it had on the creatives and extended crew. \u201cAs we discovered what that meant, it actually became an even a larger part of our show.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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