Making Avatar Supported Solutions High-Speed Storage

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To produce visual effects and CGI animation in the movies box office world, companies need storage capacity and very high performance. Weta Digital, the digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand, relying on high-performance storage technology from NetApp to collect and process their render farm is very big for a movie production that just launched, Avatar. High-performance storage from NetApp able to feed more than 30,000 CPU Core and optimize the storage network backbone 10 GbE.

Avatar made by director James Cameron is a 3D science fiction film and live action which was released on December 18, 2009 then. For film technology, 3D stereoscopic viewing and the making of the film the film is a breakthrough in world cinema. For that, the most prominent and phenomenal from this film is a 3D animation and visual effects.

Production and marketing costs for this film approaching 500 million U.S. dollars. This makes the Avatar to be one movie with the biggest production budget. Nearly half of all funds earmarked for the production of visual effects and CGI animation.

If you think that race Na'Vi (non-human creatures residents Pandora blue) in this movie is an actor or actress with a good makeup, you should think again. Na'Vi characters in this movie is entirely CGI animation. Visual effects, 3D animation, and CGI is very "wow" in this movie was done by Weta Digital.

Weta Digital is also handling the visual effects, animation, and CGI for the film trilogy Lord of the Rings, King Kong (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), District 9 (2009), and many other top films Other box office.

Apart Avatar, NetApp storage technology is also used to work on animated films from Pixar studios, such as Up (2009), Wall-E (2008), Cars (2006), Finding Nemo (2003). Apart from Pixar Studios, an animation film studio DreamWorks Animation besutan, such as Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), and Madagascar (2005), as well as its storage entrusted to NetApp.

Not only animated film that focuses on visual effects, technology and NetApp storage solutions are also used in producing live action films, such as Iron Man (2008), Speed Racer (2008), Transformers (2007), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( 2007), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and much more.