Creating Hollywood blockbusters

Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) is an award-winning visual effects (VFX) company that is leading the way in machine learning technology for VFX. The studio has worked on major Hollywood productions including Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and the Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises. VFX work is extremely compute and graphics intensive. By equipping its artists with high-performance, GPU-accelerated Lenovo ThinkStation P620 workstations, RSP experts can work more productively to bring the director's vision to life.

Customer Problem

RSP has grown significantly in recent years. As the volume and complexity of projects increased, the company looked to upgrade its artists’ devices with high-spec workstations with GPU acceleration.

Lenovo Solution

RSP worked with Storm FX to deploy powerful Lenovo ThinkStation P620 workstations, equipped with cutting-edge AMD Threadripper PRO CPUs and high-end NVIDIA RTX graphics cards—delivering a dramatic performance boost for VFX work.

Business Impact

For RSP, the difference is night and day. VFX artists can turn around work significantly faster with a higher level of quality, enabling them to constantly push the limits of imagination in their quest to deliver breathtaking visual effects.

"With our spread of ongoing projects, we needed to ensure we had machines that would handle our volume of work without sacrificing quality—and that’s exactly what Lenovo delivered with the ThinkStation P620. Engaging with Storm FX helped steer us in the right direction.”

Andrew Palmer, Look Development Supervisor, Rising Sun Pictures

Results

• ·       Shorter turnaround times for VFX work
• ·       Dramatic increase in compute and graphics performance
• ·       Supports growing volume and complexity of projects