Case Study: Jellyfish Pictures achieves global remote production and cost-efficient rendering with Hammerspace

Jellyfish Pictures Enables Next Round of Business Growth by Growing with Remote Talent Pool and Decentralized Data Environment

Jellyfish Pictures, a global VFX and animation studio, needed to support rapid business growth as its workforce became fully remote and spread across multiple countries. With hundreds of artists collaborating on massive media files, the company struggled with slow and expensive file movement, rising cloud render costs, and the challenge of keeping remote teams productive. Hammerspace helped address these needs with its Global Data Environment, working alongside Azure and Autodesk ShotGrid.

Hammerspace enabled Jellyfish Pictures to transparently move and share hundreds of millions of files across on-premises and cloud locations, giving artists local-style read/write access from anywhere while supporting cost-effective rendering in different Azure regions. The solution simplified collaboration, improved disaster recovery, and let Jellyfish scale its global workforce without copying files. Hammerspace also helped reduce costs and improve efficiency across storage and compute, giving Jellyfish more control over data placement and performance.

Jellyfish Pictures

Jeremy Smith

Chief Technology Officer