The giant kangaroo in the movie has 50 million hairs, 500 times the amount of a human being. [Photo/WeChat account: snd-szgxqfb]
With Moon Man becoming a box-office hit during this year's summer movie season, VSO Cloud, a company based in Suzhou New District that offered technological support for the movie's visual effects, also became an online sensation.
"What impressed me most was that a giant CGI kangaroo, a main character in the movie, had as many as 50 million hairs, 500 times the amount of a human being," said Tong Tao, director of render products and services at VSO Cloud.
"The movie's special effects are highly detailed. It took us up to 27 hours to render a single frame and up to 648 hours for a single second of footage," Tong added.
To meet the movie's high demands, VSO Cloud set up a team of 16 technicians and four operation and maintenance engineers to ensure the smooth running of the project.
The company has also made use of its nine data centers at home and abroad to mobilize 3,500 high-performance cloud servers for the rendering of the kangaroo, greatly improving rendering efficiency and enabling it to finish high-precision CG rendering tasks in a very short time.
As a world leading platform in the culture and creative industry with its render farm, cloud computing, cloud storage, resource integration, and crowdsourcing technology, VSO Cloud has helped render visual effects for a number of domestic and foreign movies and animations, including The Battle at Lake Changjin and Boonie Bears.
