The Mumbai animation studio is spread over a state-of-the-art 22,000 sq. ft. facility in an ultra-modern technology park in the northern suburb of Malad in Mumbai. Designed for 400 artists, the studio boasts of several creative and collaborative spaces including an ideation room, an amphitheatre, a video-conference room and open cubicles for creative directors and overseas supervisors. The lighting and compositing department works in a specially darkened room. Employees have access to a canteen and a gym. The entire work area is secured by fingerprint access.

The Delhi animation studio, opened in early 2008, has a capacity of 60 artists and is currently engaged in working on an international TV series.

MELs technology is based on a design white paper created by Intel in 2003. Dual-processor Intel workstations are connected by GbE Ethernet to online and near-line NAS storage and render farm blade servers. High speed Cisco and Foundry switches form the backbone of the network. The majority of the machines are located inside four secure machine rooms and piped to the individual desktops.

MEL has recently become a reference site for the new Windows Compute Cluster OS and also uses Windows XP and Windows Server. Software used includes Autodesk Maya, 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Photoshop and Digital Fusion. This is supplemented by Final Cut Pro edit suites for lineups and reviews. Our render farm consists of over 50 blade servers and a number of CPU and GPU servers.

A high speed internet line and FTP servers connect us to our clients.