Couchbase, Inc. announced Cinesite has selected Couchbase to power its production pipeline. Using Couchbase Server, Cinesite will enable artists at its studios around the world to collaborate on large scale visual effects (VFX) and animation projects. The result will be a truly global production pipeline that can complete projects quickly, efficiently and to the quality.

Cinesite's artists work on a variety of project types--from high end TV series, to blockbuster feature films, to full-length animated films. These are true collaborative artforms requiring hundreds of artists working across multiple disciplines, producing thousands of iterations and hundreds of terabytes of data, to work closely together. Each individual artist needs to be able to make changes to a shot, a character or an animation quickly, then review and update as necessary--all while ensuring every change is fully tracked at all locations, and that there is complete version control to ensure a consistent, final product. In the modern VFX and animation industries, where projects can consist of thousands of elements over tens or hundreds of thousands of frames, and changes can happen right up until release date, the ability to coordinate employees across locations to deliver work on time and at high quality is essential.