Case Study: Moving Picture Company scales VFX rendering and meets deadlines with Sohonet FastLane

Moving Picture Company - Customer Case Study

Moving Picture Company (MPC), a global leader in visual effects, needed a way to keep up with increasingly complex projects, shortening deadlines, and unpredictable peaks in render demand. Internal infrastructure was hard to scale quickly and cost-effectively, especially on major productions like *The Jungle Book*. MPC turned to Sohonet, using Sohonet FastLane to improve access to cloud compute.

Sohonet implemented FastLane with Google Cloud Interconnect/VPN connectivity, giving MPC a secure, high-bandwidth path into Google Cloud and letting render jobs integrate with on-premise scheduling and storage. The result was the ability to scale seamlessly to huge cloud capacity, helping MPC deliver *The Jungle Book* on time and to Oscar-winning quality, while also rendering the award-winning John Lewis “Buster the Boxer” advert in the cloud.

Moving Picture Company

Craig Dibble

Lead Render Systems Engineer