Faced with the challenge of rendering their most complex animated film yet DreamWorks Animation turned to the cloud. For the creation of Kung Fu Panda^* 2, 11 million of the required 55 million hours of render time were sourced from external, offsite resources.

As animated films become more visually complex and data intensive, particularly with the growth of stereoscopic 3D filmmaking, compute demands have been rising steadily as well. DreamWorks Animation has found an effective solution for satisfying peak compute demands without making large capital investments. Running render farms in the cloud, powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 5500 series, gives them the extra processing capacity to keep large-scale productions on schedule.

To learn more about how DreamWorks Animation powers its animation pipeline with cloud computing, read on...

Bringing animation to life through cloud computing

DreamWorks Animation relies on cloud computing environments based on Intel® Xeon® processors to handle peak rendering loads for its blockbuster films.

As you and your family watch Po the Panda rescue the kung fu tradition from a super-villain peacock in Kung Fu Panda 2, cutting-edge cloud computing might be the furthest thing from your mind. Yet for the DreamWorks Animation team, cloud computing played a vital role in bringing to life this exciting animated feature film and a host of others. Cloud computing enables development teams to access a large, flexible pool of compute resources as needed. This helps DreamWorks Animation gain the extra compute performance required for rendering during intense production periods.

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