Customer Stories
Learn about customer success stories and experience with PCoIP solutions.
ATK PLN (pronounced “attack plan”) is a design-first creative studio with expertise in design, animation, and live action. Fusing rich visuals with feature film finesse, ATK PLN tells stories on screens of all sizes. Award-winning projects range from the animation logo for Paramount to ads for Lay’s Poppables and McDonalds, to The LEGO Movie 2 and LEGO Batman. ATK PLN is a sister company to Reel FX Animation Studios.
Application performance with Teradici CAS is phenomenal. I can work on dual 4K monitors at home and completely forget my workstation is back in the office.
Challenges
- Enable artists to work from anywhere, on any device, without compromising performance or security
- Quickly add freelancer workstations and rendering capacity
- Protect clients’ intellectual property
- Give artists the latest hardware, for a competitive edge
Solution
- During the pandemic, installed Teradici CAS on office workstations and employees’ personal devices
- For freelancers in other locations, provisioned virtual workstations on Google Cloud, accessible from any device with Teradici CAS
- Built a temporary render farm with 200+ nodes on Google Cloud, managing the supervisor node via Teradici CAS
Results
- Quickly transitioned to working from home during the pandemic
- Gained an edge in attracting and retaining artists by offering remote work option
- Rendered 15TB of data (400 stereo frames output) in Google Cloud overnight
- Protected creative content by never storing it on endpoints
