CREDIT: DREAMWORKS ANIMATION hen DreamWorks Animation decided to bring The Wild Robot to life, the studio’ s infrastructure faced an unprecedented test. The film’ s lush, hand-painted environments and intricate character animations pushed compute demands to their limits, ultimately consuming more than 300 million compute hours and driving data centre utilisation to 98 %. The result? A US $ 334m global box office success.
Now DreamWorks is doubling down on its partnership with Lenovo to encompass the company’ s full portfolio of compute services, workstations and solutions. The move places Lenovo as the studio’ s preferred technology provider as DreamWorks prepares for its most ambitious year yet, including the highly anticipated Shrek 5 in December 2026.
“ This was the right time to expand because as DreamWorks Animation addresses demand for content, Lenovo has solutions and services that will allow the studio to scale more effortlessly as they happen,” Patricia Wilkey, SVP & GM of International Sales at Lenovo’ s Solutions & Services Group, tells Technology Magazine.
The partnership has already delivered quantifiable performance gains that translate directly into creative capabilities. Lenovo’ s Neptune liquid cooling technology boosted render speeds by 20 %, enabling faster iteration
74 October 2025