However, we did have a chance to chat to Foundry senior product manager Mathieu Mazerolle yesterday, who provided a few more interesting details about the service. From the sound of things, the fundamentals haven’t changed since then, so check out our original story for an overview of how Athera will operate. We covered Elara when Foundry announced it at NAB 2017. Its new name – along with the news that Foundry has chosen Google Cloud Platform as its underlying cloud service provider – was announced at NAB 2018, with registration for trial accounts beginning on 26 April.Īimed at freelancers and indies, not larger studios The platform, previously known as Elara during its beta period, provides an all-in-one cloud production service, including virtual workstations, online software rental, rendering, collaboration tools and analytics. Scroll down for news of pricing.įoundry has unveiled Athera, a new cloud-based platform intended to make it possible to run a visual effects studio using nothing more than a laptop and a standard web browser.

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