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ILM + AMD | Behind the Scenes

As studios and streaming platforms continue to push the limits and create new immersive experiences for their audience, they look to adopt better and faster technology to help solve challenges faced across the media and entertainment industry. These include finding adequate high-performance equipment, supporting remote accessibility, moving large files quickly and securely, and delivering content on time.

Supermicro and AMD is the trusted partner for industry leaders like Industrial Light & Magic, offering solutions from powerful and energy-efficient rackmount servers that reduce render time, to desktop and virtualized workstations helping to deliver seamless collaboration for artists and studios.

Collaborate and Create Seamlessly

With the popularity of virtual production growing, studios and streaming platforms are continuously looking at ways to help their creative teams collaborate seamlessly between the physical and virtual world. Whether you require a high-performance desktop workstation or customized virtualized workstations, we offer a wide range of solutions to fit your needs.

Reduce Rendering Time

Rendering content can take weeks or even months for studios, and that is why they rely on render farms to speed up the process. Supermicro’s high-performance and multi-node servers with AMD EPYC™ processors offers high core counts and as much throughput as possible, in the most energy-efficient way – reducing render time and energy consumption.

Store and Move Data Fast

One of the biggest challenges in content production is managing large amounts of information for rendering and composition. It is extremely important for studios to be able to store and move terabytes of data quickly and securely. Supermicro works closely with our storage platform partners to offer unique solutions tailored to your needs.

The faster the work moves, the sooner the vision can come to life

Pixar artists have brought the world some of the most memorable stories of the modern era, redefining animation and setting an almost impossibly high bar for the next generation of digital dreamers and storytellers. But each new world starts with a single idea, with artists and experts then working to bring that vision to life.


But it’s not just about dreaming—there’s work to be done, too. The faster the work moves, the more time teams can spend with the art. This is why Pixar artists love Supermicro + AMD. From early previz to final playthrough, workflows move with greater speed and confidence. From desk-side to data center, Pixar artists get superior creative velocity in everything they do.


These stories come to life in amazing ways, just like the collaboration between Pixar, Supermicro, and AMD. Watch the video to see what happens when technology and talent come together in the best possible ways.


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