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Juice - improving communication in creating animations and special effects - implementation of ShotGrid (Shotgun) in Visual Effects & Sound Studio

Juice - improving communication in creating animations and special effects - implementation of ShotGrid (Shotgun) in Visual Effects & Sound Studio

Customer challenge

Juice - a full-services Visual Effects & Sound Studio with strong branches in VFX, animation and design - has worked on long, short, TV and feature productions for HBO, Dolby, BMW, Mercedes, Coca-Cola, Nike, Netflix, Sony Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, and the BBC (e.g: Margrete –Queen of the North”- feature film; commercial of Playstation5, Xiaomi MI11I, Samsung; trailers: „Ares – Our greatest adventure”, Cyberpunk 2077 –Official E3 2019”, Netflix – The Liberator – TV series and many others). The company has many different departments: ART, COMPO, FX, LIGHTING, ADMINISTRATION and IT. Teams of writers, artists, audio post producers, and production supervisors dote over each delicate creation with skill and passion. With each project they want to give as much creativity as possible. But Juice had problems with project management and communication at what stage a given/specific project is at a given moment as well as with the flow of current information within the company.

Project goals

Our client's main problem was that there was no software that had everything, i.e solved interdepartmental communication problems and managed projects on an ongoing basics (they had to use several tools that were not integrated; they used Ftrack). Scene/progress versions were published on network drives, which caused communication problems in tasks. 5 years ago, Juice recognized that something needed to be done about it, and the decision to select and purchase the right software was not made until 2 years ago. They wanted to eliminate the clutter of documentation, design progress and communication between different departments. At the same time, speed up work and focus on creation rather than management. Juice estimated it would take six months to transition to a new system.

Solution

Since Juice already had licenses for Autodesk 3ds Max and later Autodesk Maya, they began looking for tools that would integrate that software with their new management and communication system. This is how they found Autodesk Shotgun (ShotGrid ), which they purchased directly from Autodesk. Unfortunately, in the beginning (despite hiring employees who had previously worked in this software) the implementation process did not move forward and took 1 year. This is what Juice says about working with Autodesk Shotgun in the beginning: "treading on people, experimenting until a solution was found - trial and error". After a year, Juice noticed that he was still not getting the most out of Autodesk Shotgun (ShotGrid). That is why he turned for help to our company - PCC Poland. After a series of trainings and proper implementation of this software in various departments of the company, Juice was finally satisfied with the results of his work on Autodesk Shotgun (ShotGrid).

Business outcome

Autodesk ShotGrid has primarily helped to organize work and reduce the extra work of keeping track of what, where, and in what version. The work is now more flexible, with the client focusing on creating rather than managing and monitoring file versions. There is now a great deal of time savings and order that has always been lacking. This allows Juice to do its projects even better and deliver them to clients faster. Juice is now working on more integration of Autodesk ShotGrid with the software in use and full automation.

Conclusion

Juice knows that there are various solutions on the market to manage, automate, and increase productivity. However, for a post-production studio like Juice, Autodesk ShotGrid is unrivaled when it comes to doing these things along with integrating the company's existing programs so that you don't have to go from one tool to another. "Finally there is order and time to work creatively on projects rather than focusing on tools and laying out tasks." - Juice employees say. This was the main assumption and expectation of the client - Approved Vendor HBO and NETFLIX. Thanks to the efficient implementation of Autodesk ShotGrid, Juice has bonded with PCC Polska and will continue to want to maintain this relationship.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 180
  • 2021-03-07

    Autodesk solutions

  • ShotGrid

    Services provided

  • System Implementation
  • Configuration & Deployment
  • Product Activation & Onboarding
  • Product Training

    Customer industry

  • Film & TV
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