Entertainment technology leader Bruce K. Long founded BeBop Technology in 2015 with a mission to promote creativity and collaboration in the entertainment industry through powerful, cloud-based solutions. Today, under Bruce K. Long’s leadership, BeBop Technology has grown into the technology provider of choice for visual effects (VFX) studios and professionals looking for better production options.

1. W H AT A R E T H E
B E N E F I T S O F V F X
I N T H E C LO U D ?
B R U C E K L O N G

2. INTRODUCTION
• Entertainment technology leader Bruce K. Long founded BeBop Technology in
2015 with a mission to promote creativity and collaboration in the entertainment
industry through powerful, cloud-based solutions. Today, under Bruce K. Long’s
leadership, BeBop Technology has grown into the technology provider of choice
for visual effects (VFX) studios and professionals looking for better production
options.
For VFX studios, large and small, there are many benefits to migrating
production operations to the cloud. By its very nature, the VFX production
process can be highly unpredictable, particularly when it comes to questions of
workflow and cost, but this unpredictability is exactly what the cloud
environment helps mitigate. Specific advantages of VFX production in the cloud
include:
Scalability: The fluid nature of VFX production often means expensive on-
premises hardware and other infrastructure is either sitting idle during slow
periods, or overburdened when multiple projects overlap.

3. VFX
• Working in the cloud, however, allows studios to scale their
operations up or down at a moment’s notice.
Availability: With cloud-based technologies, creatives can work
remotely from just about anywhere in the world. This not only
facilitates global collaboration among partners in different
locations, it allows creatives to access processing-heavy, industry-
standard tools from home.
Cost-efficiency: Unlike traditional on-premises hardware and
software, which is an all or nothing investment, cloud-based
technology allows VFX studios to pay only for the services they
need and use. (BeBop Technology is proud to be the first in the
industry to offer a flexible, on-demand pricing model.)