Production-side VFX teams are a freelance, transient bunch. Pitch a tent, build a team, organize, review, and distribute files representing tens of millions of dollars of VFX—then shut it all down and start again somewhere else. The sheer volume and variety of data that must be ingested, critiqued, and shepherded to other departments and vendors is staggering. While essential, it's uncommon for studios to build and support workflows for individual productions, and bespoke tools that are developed during production may not be battle-tested nor portable to another studio or project.

Launched in 2017, Studio Monkey was born out of my frustration as a production-side VFX Supervisor. Communication and creative momentum often broke down from the lack of easy and immediate access to production media. This created significant gaps in communication that negatively impacted quality, budget, schedules, and sanity.

Though ShotGrid excels as a centralized platform and features a myriad of integrations, it is challenging to take advantage of without a dev team. Studio Monkey makes it easy to spin up a bare-bones ShotGrid instance with little effort. Immediately ingest, tag, annotate, and review critical media, such as Art Dept blueprints or essential reference photos from set that will prove instrumental in vendor kick-offs months later. You can restructure your data without penalty once you've broken down your script and established an organizational plan for sequences, shots, and assets. Just because you don't know where something should go or how it should be named doesn't mean it should be hard to find.

Studio Monkey is a turnkey solution developed from the ground up to provide production-side VFX teams with a consistent, secure, production-ready solution that is easy to use and deploy, no matter the studio or the project.

Take the pain points out of your day and focus on what you do best. Let the Monkey do the rest.