Case Study: Shōgun achieves seamless remote collaboration for 400+ international crew with Bluescape

How FX Series Shōgun Unites an International Production Team

Shogun is an FX limited series that needed to produce a richly detailed, historically accurate 17th-century world while coordinating an international cast and a geographically dispersed production team. Faced with the loss of in-person collaboration for casting, costume, set design, and location scouting, Shogun turned to Bluescape’s creative collaboration platform and virtual workspaces to recreate shared meeting and story rooms for the entire production team.

Bluescape implemented an infinite virtual workspace that gives teams a birds‑eye view of all assets, enables simultaneous review (hundreds of costume designs were compared at once), and supports built‑in voice/video collaboration. The platform connected 400+ crew members, allowed rapid decision‑making across time zones (including a key Japanese designer despite a 17‑hour difference), reduced production costs, and has become embedded in Shogun’s creative process — all credited to Bluescape’s solution.

Shogun

Justin Marks

Executive Producer