To create award-winning visual effects for blockbuster feature films, production companies must be incredibly efficient and able to produce high-quality scenes with a fast turn-around. That’s exactly why Wylie Co.—the company behind the critically acclaimed film Dune, by Director Denis Villeneuve—selected Lenovo P620 workstations powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors together with servers powered by AMD EPYC.
Wylie Co. was able to turn around hundreds of post-visualization and final shots with ease and efficiency, including the memorable holographic scene or the distinctive blue eyes of many of Dune’s characters, which were difficult to achieve and required meticulous attention to detail. With the Lenovo P620 workstations powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors, Wylie Co. observed transformational improvements immediately in the amount of quality iterations they were able to produce, thanks to the “immense number of cores and an unfathomable amount of bandwidth”, according to CEO Jacob Maymudes.
“In order to be successful in this business, you have to be incredibly efficient—and in order to do that, you have to have the best hardware.”
“Our relationship with AMD and Lenovo has really flourished in the past couple of years. They just get visual effects. Machine learning and AI will drive the future of visual effects. And that stuff has to be run on bleeding edge tech—and Lenovo and AMD can supply that.”
Jacob Maymudes – CEO, Wylie Co
Using AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors in such a successful way led Wylie Co. to adopt AMD EPYC processors in its data centers. Thanks to the high-core count, Wylie Co. are able to separate 4-5 workstations onto a single processor, providing not only incredible performance and value but meaning editors can work from anywhere—whether on-set or in the office—and never skip a beat for their clients.
