"Lunar Animation was founded in 2014 by three artists who collectively had 30 years of industry experience in animation," says director James Rodgers. The silvery aluminium slab marks a return for Apple to the highest end of desktop creativity – it's a workstation aimed at video post-production, animation and VFX that's several levels above where the previous 'trashcan' model was positioned, with a design that harks back to the blocky desktop that preceded that.Ĭonventional benchmarks won't reveal enough about the true performance of a workstation like this, so for a real-world assessment of what the new Mac Pro is capable of, we reached out to one of the first creative companies in the UK to get its hands on a model – and use it on a high-end project for a client. 2020's Mac Pro is such a high-performance desktop workstation that we've teamed up with Sheffield-based Lunar Animation to see how it measures up when used on projects from commercials and games to Hollywood feature films.Īpple launched the long-awaited Mac Pro back at its WWDC show in June last year, but it didn't ship until December.