News & Updates

See you from June 11-17, 2023 to discover (or rediscover) our latest original IP project, as well as our 2D & 3D animation and VFX services for your needs.

When TIME magazine listed Phuket among the World's Greatest Places of 2023, our client Phuket Carnival Magic was one of the main reasons for that choice!

On 7 January 2023, The Monk Studios was proud to present “The Monk Studios Roadshow - มั้งค์มาฮอดหม่อง (meaning : “to arrive at a place”) at Khon Kaen University Science Park in Northeast Thailand.

The Monk Studios will be returning to MIPCOM for the first time since the pandemic and we are excited to meet all of you producers,

"Gannu" is an animated series created by The Monk Studios and Dancing Atoms. It is one of the six delegations of filmmakers selected from a pool of candidates from emerging animation communities for Stories x Women (2022) program.

แอนิเมชันซีรีส์สำหรับเด็ก ฝีมือคนไทยเรื่องแรกของ Netflix Kids Series โดยทีมเดอะมั้งค์ สตูดิโอ

In March 2022, North Haven Thai Private Equity, a closed-end fund managed by Morgan Stanley Private Equity, invested in The Monk Studios Company Limited.

เปิดสาขาเชียงใหม่ ต้อนรับปีใหม่เจ้า!, The Monk Studios is now in Chiang Mai!!!!!

The Monk Studios ส่งทีมงานชาวจีนเข้าร่วมเจรจาการค้าแบบเจอตัวกันจริงจัง ในงาน "Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF)"

Wish Dragon is will be released on Netflix internationally on June 11, 2021!

TedXKasetsart by our animation director with the topic "24 Frames per second"

We are looking for an intern and junior artist to be a part of our team (especially pipeline & TD)

The grade 1 pupils spent a day with The Monk Studios for an art activity under the concept "Learning through play"

"XPICE" A tale of heroes fighting to protect their city ..

The Monk Studios is a boutique Animation Studio located in Bangkok.

The Monk Studios has been contributing more than 5,000 hours of CPU and GPU time to Folding@home project for COVID-19 researches.

GungHo Online Entertainment America has just released a new trailer for "Ninjala".

The Monk Studios welcomed faculty members and students from Bachelor of Science Program in Multimedia Technology, Animation and Game, Walailak University.

We started October month on a high gear with Hollywood director Barry Cook and Gary Lee in the studio.

Congratulations to the winner of the design contest of the Phuket mascot.

This year The Monk Studios received 2 awards for Best VFX in Motion Picture from "Legend of The Ancient Sword"

Shanghai Animation and Cartoon Association visited our studio today. The association is comprised of over 200 Shanghai-based studios

Running from November 28 to 30, AAS 2018 featured 30 of the best new animation concepts for kids from South Korea, Indonesia,

This year The Monk Studios received award for Best VFX in Motion Picture from "Journey to the West2" from Bangkok International Digital Content Festival 2018.

Juck Somsaman, the Monk Studios' founder, received the Outstanding Achievement Award in Digital Content from the Ministry of Culture at Asia Comic Con on June 8th, 2018.

Andres Aguilar, the co-director of "Afterwork", SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017's Best of Show winner gave us a visit yesterday to show us "Afterwork"

The Monk Studios, along with our fellow animation studio friends, discussed trends and opportunities in the animation industry at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017, Bangkok

The Monk Studios joined SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017, Bangkok from November 28th-30th, 2017

The Monk Studios was attending Digital Thailand Bigbang 2017 during 21-24 September 2017 at Challenger 1-2 IMPACT.

Check out the work from our interns Dominica Harrison graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and Vaibhav Keswani, a 3rd year animation student at Gobelins, l'ecole de l'image, Paris.

Last week our visitors were young students from Bangna Commercial College. Thank you so much for visited us and we hope The Monk Studios give an inspiration for the future artists and animator!

This year SIGGRAPH ASIA ,https://sa2017.siggraph.org, will take place in Bangkok Thailand from Nov 27-30.

Shelley is a jury member for SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017 Computer Animation. Festival which will take place in Bangkok from November 27-30.

The Monk studios provided animation work for our friends at Puppetworks Studios who's in charge of the teaser.

Congratulations to the Animation winners of Asiagraph Reallusion 2017, Thailand! To create such great work within only 48 hours.

The Monk Studios participates in another epic movie!! This time for "Journey to the West II" a movie by Stephen Chow Sing-chi, which made $126.2 million in only 4 days.

Even after dropping out of classes and graduating late, Athawut Vitheethum never gave up on his dreams to become "a storyboard artist."

Juck Somsaman, founder of the Monk Studios, was interviewed by the Bangkok Post to discuss challenges and opportunities for Asian countries in the animation industry

The Monk Studios designed T-Shirts for the 2017 Agricultural Fair @ Kasetsart University.

Eggy Egg! The little chicks are out to make friends and meet their fans at the Hong Kong Licensing Fair @ HK Convention Center.

'Eggy Egg!' The Monk Studios' newest animation was selected to be pitched at the Asian Animation Summit (AAS) 2016 in Brisbane, Australia 22-24 Nov 2016.

One of the key narratives at the Annecy festival’s International Animation Film Market (MIFA) is the burgeoning attendance of participants from Asia. Variety spoke to Juck Somsaman from Thailand’s The Monk Studios, whose “Duck Fight: Fist of the Feather” was one of six titles selected for MIFA’s feature film pitches.
Movie animation production is growing in Thailand. Why?

Short film is based on “Nine Lives,” the award-winning graphic novel from Thailand by Songsin Tiewsomboon.The Monk Studios latest short film Nine is loosely based on the award-winning Thai graphic novel called “Nine Lives” by Songsin Tiewsomboon. The story follows the fate of a lively cat who sells his soul to a demon in exchange for mortality.

Juck Somsaman has created a world-class anime production studio in his home country of Thailand. Southeast Asia isn't just a low-cost labor pool anymore. While it continues to climb the economic ladder, it is also joining the creative class. That means the world is about to get eyefuls and earfuls of Southeast Asian movies and music.