Nimble Collective Now Powered by Microsoft Azure Accelerates the Future of Animation

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Nimble Collective, the leading cloud-based animation technology platform, announced that it is available and optimized on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. As Nimble Collective's exclusive cloud partner, Microsoft Azure provides storage and compute services to power Nimble's high-end animation platform, rendering workloads and media asset management. As a Microsoft partner, Nimble will receive go-to-market and market development support from one of the world's largest enterprise salesforces.

"Microsoft Azure's support of Nimble lets us expand our global reach to bring new voices, stories and artists to the world of animation," said Rex Grignon, Co-Founder, CEO, Nimble Collective. "It will help us further reduce cost, complexity and enable new and established studios to accelerate their animation production. Nimble Collective is excited to partner with a platform company, with a trusted public cloud – Microsoft Azure – to deliver a world-class cloud-based animation production and management solution."

Nimble Collective's cloud-based animation production platform streamlines the traditional animation studio infrastructure. With full end-to-end production capabilities hosted in Microsoft Azure's secure hyperscale environment, Nimble's platform integrates everything digital animators need, including streaming workstations, asset management, license brokering, versioning, elastic compute farm to MPAA certification. All of which is seamlessly woven together in a browser-based workflow that dramatically simplifies and improves archaic animation processes.

"We go beyond data and storage to deliver a complete industrial-strength platform that dramatically lowers barriers to entry for every animator," said Grignon. "Microsoft Azure uniquely gives us the features, performance, and scalability to offer our customers better user experiences, reliability and security a fraction of the cost of in-house studios."

"Microsoft is committed to helping content creators achieve more using the cloud with a partner-focused approach to this industries transformation," said Tad Brockway, General Manager, Azure Storage, Media and Edge at Microsoft Corp.  "We're excited to work with innovators like Nimble Collective to help them transform how animated content is produced, managed and delivered."

"This partnership with Azure represents further validation of the promise of Nimble Collective and we can't wait to see what the future holds," said James Bennett, Co-founder/Creative Director with Shomen Productions. "Nimble is our solution of choice for our remote based production studio. We're impressed with their user-friendly pipeline and amazing support team."

About Nimble Collective
Founded in 2014 by Academy Award-winning animators and technology entrepreneurs, Nimble Collective is revolutionizing the animation content market by offering studio-level capabilities without the costly and complex infrastructure. With all the production capabilities of the animation pipeline hosted in a secure cloud environment, animators and their collaborators, wherever they are in the world, are able to spend more time creating instead of managing infrastructure. With Nimble Collective, studios can spend more time creating, and save up to 75% on overhead and drive faster time to market. Nimble Collective is the brainchild of animators Rex Grignon (Toy Story, Madagascar, and founding head of character animation at DreamWorks), Jason Schleifer (Lord of the Rings, Megamind) and Scott LaFleur (How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind). Learn more at NimbleCollective.com.

Media Contact for Nimble Collective
Juliet Travis
Liftoff Communications
510-612-9622
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