Guru Studio
“HP Z Workstations have taken machine limitations out of the
production process and brought creativity back in.”
– Yurie Rocha, creative director of production, Guru Studio, Toronto, Canada
Guru Studio is a content-driven entertainment company
renowned for creating, developing and producing
internationally acclaimed and highly successful shows including
the #1 U.S. preschool smash-hit and consumer products
phenomenon, Paw Patrol™, in collaboration with Spin Master
and Nick Jr., as well as Mattel’s Ever After High; and its own
original Emmy® Award nominated preschool series Justin Time
in association with Disney Jr. and Netix.
Case study
Guru Studio
Netix Original creator leverages HP Z Workstations
for GPU rendering
Industry
Media & Entertainment
Objective
Provide studio artists with the optimal technology
tools to unleash creativity and meet constant
deadlines at an aordable cost
Approach
Deploy HP Z Workstations, including HP Z840
Workstations with HP Z Turbo Drive and NVIDIA®
Quadro® M6000 Graphics cards supporting Redshift
GPU-based rendering workows enabling faster
creative iterations at lower cost
IT matters
• Increase rendering speed by 20% with HP Z Turbo
Drive
• Reduce render farm build costs by 66%
• Enable strategic shift to GPU-based workows
• Streamline production workows for
storyboarding, animation, editing
Business matters
• Improve quality through speed-enabled creative
iterations
• Meet robust market demand for original content
• Reduce infrastructure costs, accommodate space
constraints
• Meet high-pressure weekly series deadlines