Wylie Co. Customer Story

Powering Dune’s
Visual Effects
with Lenovo
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment/Legendary Pictures

Wylie Co. is a cutting-edge visual effects studiothat specializes in pre and post visualization
for feature films and television. Jake Maymudes
founded Wylie Co. in 2015 with the idea thathe could create a new kind of visual effects
company, featuring a talented, agile, highly
efficient team that provides the highest quality
work faster than traditional vendors.

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Wylie Co. was responsible for Dune’s iconic blueeyes (The Eyes of Ibad), tracking nearly 450 eye
shots to achieve stunning results.

To be successful in this business, you haveto be incredibly efficient, and in order to dothat, you have to have the best hardware.

At Wylie Co., that means harnessing dozens
of Lenovo ThinkStation P620s powered by
AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO processors.

Academy Award-winning VFX Supervisor,
Paul Lambert, brought Wylie Co. on during thepostproduction phase for the award-winning film,Dune. Lambert chose Wylie Co. because of theirreputation as an experienced, nimble company
that can turn around high quality shots quickly.
The Challenge
For their work on Dune, Wylie Co. needed toproduce hundreds of post visualization and final
shots. Lambert explains that when it comesto postproduction, speed is everything. Whena director gives feedback, they expect to see
results within 24-48 hours. To achieve these fast
turnaround times, you need the fastest, mostreliable hardware.

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment/Legendary Pictures

The Solution
Wylie Co. began using the ThinkStation P620 withAMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO because of its
game-changing power and speed. Equipped withhigh core count and frequency, NVIDIA RTX™
professional graphics, and massive storage, theysaw immediate improvements in iteration times.
Wylie Co. was able to turn around incredible
amounts of iterations and be exceptionallyefficient with their team. By the end of production
on Dune, Wylie Co. had finished nearly 300 postvis shots as well as approximately 900 final visualeffects. In fact, they created a version of every
single post-visualization spot in the film.
Looking ahead, Maymudes is excited to buildon the power of his company’s solid technology
foundation. Wylie Co. is diving into machinelearning and AI, which he predicts is the future ofvisual effects.

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Jake Maymudes, CEO, Wylie Co.

Those advances have to be run on bleedingedge tech, and Lenovo and AMD can supply that.
Jake Maymudes, CEO, Wylie Co.

How Lenovo Workstations
Transformed Their Process
The Lenovo ThinkStation P620 with AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO offers stunning performancewith up to 64 cores and clock speed up to 4.5GHz. The P620 combines Lenovo’s legendary reliability
and customer-driven innovation with professional manageability and enterprise-class support.
Purpose built with the speed and configurability professionals require, this powerhouse offers
PCIe Gen4, unmatched NVIDIA RTX™ professional graphics support, as well as increased storage
speed and fast onboard 10GB ethernet. The ThinkStation P620 provides the ground-breaking
performance and reliability you need to bring your creative vision to life.

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Our relationship with AMD and Lenovo
has really flourished in the last couple of years.
They just get visual effects.
Jake Maymudes, CEO, Wylie Co.

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ThinkStation P620 Specifications
Processor
AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO,(up to 64 cores, up to 4.5GHz)
Graphics
Supports up to 2 powerful
NVIDIA RTX™ A6000
MemoryUp to 1TB DDR4 3200MHz ECCStorage
Up to 20TB of Storage
Solid State Drive
Gen4 Support for PCIe Slots
and M.2 Storage
ThermalsMulti-channel Cooling

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