JELLYFISH PICTURES CASE STUDY:
Jellyfish Pictures Enables Next Round of Business Growth by Growing with Remote Talent Pool and Decentralised Data Environment
“Jellyfish’s virtual transformation predates COVID. We built our first virtual VFX and animation studio in 2016 and went completely virtual in December 2019. Then the pandemic hit in early 2020. It massively shifted how everyone looks at remote work.
“Even with our previous shift to virtual studios, the sudden move to remote work and our customers pausing their live shoots impacted our business. Production plans depended on more animation and special effects, so our work grew nearly overnight. We hired a hundred new artists to help carry the load, but we quickly realised that sharing large files across the world, to keep the remote artists productive, would be a real issue.”
Jeremy Smith, CTO, Jellyfish Pictures Image courtesy of Jellyfish Pictures. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story © 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd Big Growth Takes Big Innovation
Jellyfish pictures is one of the most respected VFX and animation studios in the world employing more than 300 artists with two UK studios and offering remote work around the globe. The jellyfish team has done engaging and innovative work for blockbuster movies including Lucas Films’ Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Last Jedi and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and TV dramas including HBO’s Watchmen, Netflix’ The Innocents and Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation. Jellyfish motto is, “No borders. Total security. Certain delivery.”
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The studio had a competitive advantage since it had virtualised all of its locations in 2019. But giving high-performance, local access to content files, collaborating between hundreds of artists working out of home offices located around the globe was a new and even more difficult challenge. Not only were their staff members suddenly working from home, but they were working from widely distributed home countries including the U.K., Canada, the U.S., and India.
For Jellyfish to rapidly grow the business, they needed to adapt their technology architecture to allow them to recruit, and rapidly make productive, new artists from anywhere around the world to meet spiking demand.
With the increased workload and widely distributed staff, traditional file movement methods like FTP, rSync, and shipping physical media were too complex and inefficient. Even in the cloud, continually moving and managing huge files around the world was a very manual, slow, and expensive proposition.
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