Introduction

Computer animation studios are under constant pressure to meet film release dates. With multi-million dollar budgets tied to a fixed schedule, time is truly money for this industry. These films require enormous amounts of processing and storage horsepower, leading to I/O bottlenecks and increasing wait times that can compromise production quality. Centralized storage caching accelerates the rendering process and cuts the I/O wait time, giving studios the ability to produce higher quality films and visual effects without extending the production schedule.

Resources

• News Release: CACHEfx Scalable Caching Appliances from Gear6 deployed at Sony Pictures Imageworks to Accelerate Image Rendering Applications
• White Paper: Solving Rendering Bottlenecks in Computer Animation