# Vagon for Creative Professionals

Vagon Computer gives creative professionals an on-demand, GPU-accelerated Windows workstation in the cloud. Instead of buying and maintaining a tower, you spin up the hardware you need for the project in front of you and step back down when the work is done.

## Who This Is For

This setup fits creators who routinely push local hardware to its limits:

* 3D artists working in Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D, or 3ds Max.
* VFX and motion designers using After Effects, Houdini, or Nuke.
* Architectural visualizers building large scenes in Twinmotion, Lumion, or Unreal Engine.
* Video editors and colorists in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut workflows that move through Windows tools.
* GPU rendering pipelines built on Octane, V-Ray, Redshift, or Cycles.

If your bottleneck is render time, scene size, or the lifespan of an aging GPU, Vagon Computer is designed to take that off your plate.

## The Typical Workflow

A creative session on Vagon usually looks like this:

1. Start the Vagon Computer on a Graphics Accelerated tier such as Galaxy.
2. Open your tools from the preinstalled app catalog or install your own.
3. Pull project files from cloud storage, or upload them through Vagon Files and **sync them onto the Vagon Computer's local disk** before opening them.
4. Work in the editor from the local disk path, iterate, and render directly on the cloud GPU.
5. Move finished deliverables back to Vagon Files or client storage and stop the session.

Because the disk, files, and applications persist between sessions, the next time you start the computer everything is exactly where you left it.

## Recommended Tier

Graphics Accelerated tiers (such as Galaxy) are the right starting point for GPU-heavy creative work. For lighter passes -- review, conform, light edits -- you can drop to a lower tier on the same computer and scale back up for the next render.

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## What Makes the Workflow Practical

A few Vagon features matter most for creative pipelines:

* **Native drawing tablet support.** Drawing tablets and Apple Pencil work plug-and-connect with real-time pressure sensitivity, so digital painting, sculpting, masking, and rotoscoping feel native inside the cloud session.
* **Bring your own license.** Install the versions of the software you already pay for, signed in with your existing accounts.
* **Expandable disk storage.** Project files for film, VFX, and large 3D scenes get big fast. Disk can be expanded as projects grow.
* **Region selection.** Pick a region close to you for editing latency, or close to a collaborator or studio for transfer speeds.
* **Persistent setup.** Plugins, presets, color profiles, and project libraries stay in place across sessions.

## Next Steps

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[Performance Options & Specs](/computer/features/performance-options-and-specs.md)
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[Preinstall App Catalog](/computer/features/preinstall-app-catalog.md)
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[Expandable Disk Storage](/computer/features/expandable-disk-storage.md)
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[Vagon Files Directory](/computer/features/vagon-files-directory.md)
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[USB & External Hard Disk Support](/computer/features/usb-and-external-hard-disk-support.md)
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