At first, the shift to remote collaboration in media and entertainment was gradual – an experiment in efficiency. Studios sent animation jobs overseas, split VFX work across vendors, and slowly built the connective tissue of global pipelines.
Then came the pandemic in 2020, and that slow evolution became a sprint. Practically overnight, bedrooms became edit bays and dining room tables turned into production offices. Rendering moved to the cloud. The fact that production continued at all was a testament to the industry’s ingenuity.
When the world reopened, many expected a return to the old ways. Instead, a new normal emerged – one where production teams span continents, reviews happen in the cloud, and creative professionals rarely share the same zip code, let alone the same building.
The result? Boundless creative opportunity and a vastly expanded security frontier.
As workflows go global, the challenge isn’t whether you can embrace distributed collaboration. It’s how you can do so securely, without slowing down the creative process or putting valuable IP at risk.