Cloud Render Farm Built for Animation and VFX Studios
StudioCloud Overview
Serving the World’s
Largest Animation and
Visual Effects Studios
StudioCloud is a fully managed cloud render farm built for animation and visual effects studios. We take the infrastructure off your plate so your team can focus on the work. With over 500,000 cores and seven data centres across North America, you get a secure, scalable render pipeline that fits studios of any size. The network is MPAA-audited, and it is built for media and entertainment workloads.
Scalable Capacity
Tap into a scalable pool of render capacity and set the term length that fits each project.
Flexible Pricing
For steady render needs, choose a longer lease for the lowest price per node per day. Add short-term rentals for project work.
Speed
Stand up a full studio of infrastructure in days to weeks. That includes workstations, storage and core network.
StudioCloud Exchange
Sell or sublease spare servers to other member studios to recover costs and cut risk.
Case Study
CDW StudioCloud: Powering Superhero Films and Streaming Your Favourite Cartoons
StudioCloud gives animation and VFX studios the compute they need to render for film, television and streaming. Run it as an extension of your on-premises workflow.
How it Works
Pick the location you want to render in. Connect to our animation and VFX data centres over dark fibre. Then light up render capacity with the look, feel and security of your own premises. Need to shift locations for talent or tax credits? Scale up at a new StudioCloud site. When nodes sit idle, sublease them at a higher rate than you paid.
Strategically placed locations
Our data centres in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal connect you over an ultra-high-speed network. You get high-performance, low-latency data transfer for faster job cycles.
Scale up at a moment's notice
Extra capacity is there when you ask for it, with no capital outlay. Tell us what you need and we handle the rest.
Outside talent and tax credit
Need to reach outside talent or claim tax credits? Scale up at a new StudioCloud site.
Sublease your nodes with studio exchange
With StudioCloud Exchange, your IT budget can become a profit centre. Sublease or sell spare server capacity to any other studio on our service. It is a clean way to recover costs and cut risk.
Technical Specs
High Security
A fully air-gapped network accredited by MPAA and Disney/Marvel, with data centre redundancy, access control and security cameras.
Fully Managed
24/7 monitoring and support from StudioCloud engineers, backed by CDW's own network and security operations centres.
Dark Fibre
Our data centres in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Los Angeles connect you over an ultra-high-speed network for low-latency data transfers.
Purpose Built
StudioCloud is built for animation and VFX, with high core count, high frequency and high-memory compute nodes. It works as a dedicated render server pool or a full render farm.
Blazing Performance
PowerEdge servers are tuned for AMD EPYC processors to handle the most compute-intensive HPC workloads, while opening access to more departments and projects.
Reduce Costs
AMD EPYC processors cut the number of processors and servers you need. You save on licencing and get more performance on a tight budget.
Our Approach
We Meet You Where You Are
Assess
Our certified experts run a set of assessment services to map your current maturity and plan the next steps toward an optimized environment. We focus on growth, portability, manageability, observability, resiliency and security.
Architect
We help you build the plan to train your people, update your processes and add the technology to handle current and future needs. We take your business goals and turn them into implementation plans and architectures.
Implement
Our team helps you train skills, change processes and roll out technology that meets your goals. From professional services to staff augmentation, our solutions and services cover your most complex projects.
Operate
Managed services are core to how we support studios. More teams want to consume IT as a service, so our managed SOC and NOC teams cover your critical systems 24/7/365.
