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 The Monk Studios 

The Monk Studios Company Limited is a Thai visual effects and animation studio with a track record of creating world class imagery for the Asian and Western markets. The Monk Studios creates animation short films, its own intellectual property. As outsource, The Monk Studios offers a full cycle service from initial concept through to final production, including concept development, script writing, asset creation, animation, and visual effects for commercials, short and feature length films.

History
The Monk Studios Company Limited founded by Juck Somsaman in 2006 based in Bangkok, Thailand.

With an expert group of international directors and producers, using highly skilled artists and cutting edge technology, The Monk Studios produces world-class imagery, high quality visual effects (VFX) and animation for both feature films and commercials in the Asian and Western markets.

Since established over 10 years, The Monk Studios has become well known for gathering the region’s most talented artists, The Monk Studios is gaining a solid reputation as a leading high end animation and visual effects studio in South East Asia, frequently working with major international partners and clients, such as Unilever, McCann Erickson, Lowe WorldWide, LucasFilm and Industrial Light & Magic, on a variety of public and confidential projects. The company also boasts an efficient technical infrastructure, a sophisticated pipeline, high capacity output, and qualified engineering staff.

The Monk Studios' short films has won several international awards giving the studio worldwide recognition for producing high quality animation projects.

Animated television series
Max Adventures is an animated television series computer animation, based on the mascot of the ice cream brand Paddle Pop lion. It was released as a film to promote the brand worldwide, but eventually became a series. The Monk Studios produced this series since 2008 (with one season in 2013 produced by the Taiwan-based Singaporean company Egg Story Studio before returning to The Monk Studios the following year).

Episodes: Pyrata (2008), Kombatei (2009), Elemagika (2010), Begins (2011), Begins 2 (2012), Magilika (2014), Atlantos (2015), and Atlantos 2 (2016).

Short films
Escape of the Gingerbread Man is a short film produced by The Monk Studios, directed by Tod Polson and co-produced by The Animation Workshop, Denmark and The West Danish Film Fund. It's a story about a young storyteller challenges the old master in a pub on the Irish west coast. When things take an unexpected turn. Brought to life by veteran Irish comedian Jon Kenny, with original music by traditional Irish band 'Rattle the boards'. 'Escape of the Gingerbread Man' is a mad romp through the Irish countryside, and a subtle commentary on the changes in traditions, and culture that is happening through the emerald Isle.

Awards
 * Park City Music Festival 2011: Gold Medal for Excellence in Original Music for an Animated Short Film
 * Metropolitan Film Festival 2011: Best Animation
 * Los Angeles Film & Script Festival 2011: Best Animation
 * Los Angeles Movie Awards 2011: 1st place Animation, Best Director, Best Secreenplay, Best Animated Visuals, Best Voice Over
 * California International Shorts Festival: Best Animation
 * Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood: Best Animation
 * Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2011: 1st place in Best Animation, Best Director, Best Story, Best Animated Visuals, Best Animated Sound Design, Best Voice Over
 * Tulsa United Film Festival 2011: Best Short Film
 * SIGGRAPH 2011: Jury Award Runners-up

Nine is a short animation inspired by a character from the illustrated book “Nine Lives” by Songsin Tiewsomboon. It is a story about a lively little cat who sold his spirit to a demon in exchange for immortality, not knowing that the exchange would change his life forever.

Awards
 * Apollo Awards 2014: Best Art Direction, Best directing Short form
 * Beverly Hills Film Festival 2014: Best Animation
 * California International Shorts Festival (Spring) 2014: Best Animated Short Film
 * Lift-Off Film Festival 2015: Seasonal Overall Winner Animation
 * Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood 2014: Best Animated Short Film, Original Score
 * Los Angeles Film and Script Festival (Fall) 2015: Best Animation
 * NonStop Barcelona Animació 2014: The prize of the audience for best short film
 * The Los Angeles New Wave International Film 2014: Best Animated Visual
 * West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film 2014: Honorable Mention
 * Williamsburg International Film Festival 2014: Best Animation
 * World Arts Film Festival 2014: Best Animation

Official selections
 * Bosnia and Herzegowina: Neum Animated Film Festival (NAFF) 2014
 * Brazil: ANIMAGE FESTIVAL 2014
 * Canada: SPARK Animation 2014
 * China: China International New Media Film Festival 2014, SIGGRAPH Asia 2014
 * Hong Kong: The Pineapple Underground Film Festival 2014
 * India: Short Film Forum 2014
 * Ireland: The Fastnet Short Film Festival 2014
 * Italy: Euganea Film Festival 2014, Scratch! Animation Film Festival 2014
 * Japan: Lift-Off Film Festival 2016, Tokyo
 * Mexico: Guanajuato International Film Festival 2014
 * Portugal: Fest 2014
 * Singapore: Lift-Off Film Festival 2016
 * Taiwan: Kuandu International Animation Festival 2014
 * UK: British Animation Film Festival 2014, Encounters 2014, Lift-Off Film Festival 2014
 * US: Brooklyn Film Festival 2014, LA SHORTS FEST 2014, New Hampshire Film Festival 2014, NYC Independent Film Festival 2014, and URBANWORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2014, New York