Animation firm overhauls bandwidth

Wallace and Gromit creators enlarge web links to improve communication with US partners

Aardman Animations is expanding its internet links to allow it to send and receive larger files from its US partners.

The Bristol-based animation studio, which created Wallace and Gromit characters, is expanding its current internet bandwidth from 4Mbit/s to 10Mbit/s.

As Aardman's business develops it is increasingly making feature films and TV series with partners around the world, says its head of IT, Paul Deane.

'Most of our traditional model animation is now shot digitally and with our growing computer generated Imagery business we are having to deal with huge volumes of production data,' he said.

'Ntl:Telewest Businesshas provided us with a large increase in the speed of our internet access which allows our co-production teams in the UK, the US and Canada to share files.'

'The ability to do this is critical to our business as we work on more of these collaborative projects.'

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