Studio Monkey simplifies and automates media management and reviews for production-side VFX teams. It integrates seamlessly with ShotGrid™ and encompasses the entire production cycle, from green light to final archive.
On a typical feature film Studio Monkey can automate 6,000+ hours of manual tasks. This level of efficiency enhances productivity, sharpens communication, and allows for more streamlined staffing.
"Studio Monkey allowed my team to be lean, flexible, and twice as effective!"
Andrew Turner
VFX Production Manager
"My work life has never been easier."
Sean Devereaux
VFX Supervisor
"Intuitive, lightning-fast, and dare I say…fun?"
Tessa Roehl
Associate VFX Producer
"This solves everything I hate about my job."
Curtis Corona
VFX Production Manager
"Studio Monkey is a game changer! It quite literally saved our team from needless late nights."
Joe Greenberg
VFX Producer
"I will never do another show without Studio Monkey."
Ruth Hauer
VFX Producer
"Studio Monkey has a remarkable way of just making things work for a production, allowing the team to focus on the creative."
Sean Faden
VFX Supervisor
"Without Studio Monkey, we wouldn't have had such a smooth delivery."
Lydia Bland
VFX Production Manager
"Studio Monkey has streamlined our entire production process, I've never worked so efficiently!"
Ali Pak
VFX coordinator
"Studio Monkey allowed my team to be lean, flexible, and twice as effective!"
Andrew Turner
VFX Production Manager
"My work life has never been easier."
Sean Devereaux
VFX Supervisor
Rapid Deployment
As soon as you receive media, organization is crucial. With Studio Monkey, show specs, naming conventions, folder structures, and file servers are not required to get started. In just a few days, you can be up and running with ShotGrid and a single Mac—then scale to multiple users and proper file storage as your project evolves.
Prep - Shoot - Post
Whether it's files received in prep from Locations, Art Dept, SFX, Stunts, or Previs, shoot data from your wranglers, or submissions from VFX vendors—Studio Monkey can ingest, organize, and collect material without hesitation during any phase of production.
Ingest & Find Anything
Advanced clustering algorithms, combined with extensive automated key-wording, means nothing has to be organized or put into a submission sheet before getting it into ShotGrid, regardless of the origin or state of the incoming media. Ingest and review any file in seconds. Nothing falls through the cracks with Studio Monkey.
Quality Control
VFX vendor submissions undergo Studio Monkey's thorough quality control process and are reliably sorted into Shot and Asset trees. This eliminates errors and exposes delivery spec issues to avoid consequential problems in editorial and DI.
Flexible & Efficient Storage
Studio Monkey integrates with a variety of file servers, including local RAIDs, prosumer NASs, enterprise-level network storage solutions, and cloud storage platforms. It also prevents data duplication. The average project can avoid 720 hours of server-server copies and save over 100TB of disk space.
Salvage Time
In addition to substantial in-house productivity benefits, Studio Monkey drastically reduces wait times for downstream departments and vendors, reclaiming time to iterate, address notes, and hit deadlines. Prep reviews in seconds, not hours. Prep set data turnovers in minutes, not days.
2.06 Petabytes
Disk Space Saved
81,207,345
Files Processed
301,266 Hours
Automation Savings