HP and Dreamworks Animation SKG, Inc. have united once again to create the studio’s action-packed 3-D film Kung Fu Panda 2.

For ultimate performance, production artists at Dreamworks Animation relied on powerful HP Z800 Workstations to achieve industry firsts while designing everything from whirling water and lush green lands to battle scenes filled with thousands of kung fu characters.

For more than a decade, HP and Dreamworks Animation have worked side by side to create revolutionary technology that has helped craft eye-popping, heart-racing and awe-inspiring animation features like the Shrek series, How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda and now Kung Fu Panda 2.

HP’s high-performance workstations have been fine-tuned to meet the detailed and demanding creative needs of Dreamworks Animation.

The HP Z800 Workstations are radically faster – as much as 50 per cent for some applications – than their predecessors and are the workstation of choice for several studios around the world.

The additional high-speed Intel processing cores, memory and option drives enabled artists to effectively work on multiple shots concurrently and far more interactively than before.

The original Kung Fu Panda film, released in 2008, used more than 50 terabytes of data and required nearly 25 million render hours.

With the switch to stereoscopic 3-D and the ever-escalating creative aspirations of the filmmakers, Kung Fu Panda 2 used 100 terabytes of data and required more than 55 million render hours.