Case Study: Milford achieves 10x render power and lower costs with Google Cloud Platform

Milford Producing award-winning animation with Google Cloud Platform

Milford is a Stockholm-based creative studio that produces high‑end CGI and visual content for global brands. As client demand moved to higher-resolution 4K work and tighter deadlines, the studio’s on‑premises render farm couldn’t deliver the compute needed for longer projects — most urgently for the 3.5‑minute short film Night Shift.

By adopting Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine) with short‑lived preemptible VMs, Milford can spin up hundreds of render nodes in minutes, integrate them into its existing pipeline with automated checkpointing, and scale render capacity roughly 10x at a fraction of the cost. The setup reduced delivery time and server costs, enabled more advanced visual effects, and helped Night Shift earn 20+ awards.

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John Roxenhed

Chief Technology Officer