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Scale up Shotgun Usage at a Reduced Cost

Scale up Shotgun Usage at a Reduced Cost

Customer challenge

Flying Bark Productions is an internationally recognised Australian animation studio. Known for its high-quality children’s animated entertainment productions, Flying Bark has produced some of the world’s most popular films and TV shows like Maya the Bee, Blinky Bill, 100% Wolf, and much more. With hundreds of artists working collaboratively on multiple projects at the same time, Flying Bark has been using Autodesk Shotgun as their production management tool to allocate tasks, track progress and deadlines, share assets and review. It is an invaluable tool for the studio. When Shotgun was first implemented, the studio chose the monthly subscription option and it was transacted in US dollars via their credit card. While they’re pleased with the software, the extra fees associated with credit card and foreign exchange rates were proven to be costly. With more jobs and artists onboard, they were looking at expanding the usage of Shotgun and reducing the current subscription cost.

Project goals

Flying Bark had two key goals in mind: 1) Expand Shotgun capacity 2) Identify cost saving possibilities to reduce the overall subscription cost

Solution

STORM FX, being a local Autodesk solution provider, was able to scale up Flying Bark’s Shotgun usage capacity across two studio sites quickly and offer them cost effective pricing in Australian currency and a billing method with a local bank.

Business outcome

Soon after more Shotgun seats had been added, the studio was able to enjoy a larger collaborative framework, allowing more artists to work together seamlessly. The new pricing and billing method have reduced Flying Bark’s overall subscription cost by 30%.

Conclusion

STORM FX has successfully delivered a cost-effective solution to its client and improved their business workflow efficiency at the same time.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 1
  • 2019-08-01

    Autodesk solutions

  • Shotgun

    Services provided

  • Solution Optimization Services
  • Software Asset Management & Usage

    Customer industry

  • Film & TV
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