Three Wise Monkeys are an immersive-media production and visual-effects post production company creating narrative and spectacle driven stories, experience & communications collaborating with brands, agencies, directors & producers & production companies. Three Wise Monkeys Studio is an immersive-media production and visual effects and animation post-production company undertaking innovative audio
-visual design, animation and live action/visual effects focussed narrative and spectacle driven stories and communications. We develop, design, supervise, produce and deliver visual-effects, animation-based simulated environment and architectural visualisations, virtual-production based films, experiences and location-based immersive-media installations. We utilise both real-time and traditional render methodologies for animation, visual effects and virtual production to create immersive spaces that engender surprising encounters and liminal events using creative technologies. We believe that by highlighting the contrasts that exist between the ways we feel and think that we can help the world visualise a better version of our communities and society. We create compelling and memorable characters and stories, communications and experiences that move audiences to action by affecting surprise, emotional connection, reflection and motivation. By researching and challenging existing themes, subjects, tools and object/subject dualities through exploration, play, flow and hyper-focal practices we love to challenge existing orientations to invent new approaches and deliver real innovation. We provide collaborative multi-media ideation, direction, production and post production to delivery across all formats of linear and interactive or participatory media. Our integrated practices cross live action, motion control, virtual production, visual effects, animation, motion capture, VR, AR, projection and immersive-media production using the latest creative technology applications for media, spatial and performance-based immersion. production and reception of immersive media
The company is led by VFX Designer, Supervisor & Producer Carl Grinter who specialises in photorealistic visualisation, ideation, digital and analogue film making methodologies, storytelling with characters or avatars creating invisible or fantastical visual effects. His practice interests are in affecting surprise as an initiator of media immersion and emotional involvement and connection, engendering new experiences that enable a new way of seeing the world to create compelling and memorable journeys and narratives. Carl has a Practice PhD from the University of the Arts London where his thesis researched how the affect of surprise transformed meaning co-ontologically through design, production and reception of immersive-media.
