How the Xbox One cloud could help animators, according to Crytek

I spent quite a lot of last week listening to various

highly intelligent people bang on about the potential

benefits of remote processing, aka "the power of the

cloud", at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK.

Among these highly intelligent people was Mark

Jackson, technical animation director at Crytek – a

company that is reportedly undergoing something of a

financial meltdown right now. Jackson wasn't able to

comment on these claims on the record, but he was

able to say a few things about how Xbox Live's

scalable server support might be of service to

animation departments in particular.