Taking Flight to the Cloud:Compute Cloud for Rendering

Moonbot Studios

A fast-growing, Oscar-winning, multiplatform

storytelling studio in Louisiana

Specializes in feature-quality animation, traditional book

publishing and game development

Challenges that pushed Moonbot onto the cloud

“With the complexity of our pictures, a single frame of video can take 2 to 5 hours to render. For the 7,200 frames of our most recent short, we had to plan for as much as 14,400 hours of render capacity – something we didn’t have.”

~ Brennan Chapman, Moonbot’s Pipeline Supervisor

Networking

Power

Time

Space

Scalability

Cost

Overnightrenders

Consistencybetween setup

of on-site rendernodes and cloud

Continueduse of Qubefor rendering

Simple processto move forecastedcompute capacity

to the cloud

Easy to usefor both pipeline

and artists

 Ability totransfer 12TB

with a 100Mbpsconnection

Compute powerthat scales hourly,

if needed

Minimalamount ofnew tools

Ability to copyassets to cloud

and resultsback on-site

Avere vFXT gives Moonbot big-studio results on a small-studio budget!

Avere vFXT Solution Enterprise-grade file system for the cloud

Caching node between cloud compute and on-premises storage

Burst rendering applications to cloud compute serviceswithout moving NAS-based data

Compute Engine

Virtual FXT

RenderFarm

ArtistWorkstations

On-premises Compute On-premises Storage

NAS

VirtualRender

Rarm

Cloud Storage

For Animation/Media Studios

Extremelylow-latency access

to active data

Easy to deploy,manage and expand

Big-studioresults on a

small-studio budget

Cloud Rendering with the Avere vFXT

Quick set-up More capacity Lower latency Lower cost Pay as you need

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