M72 Studio is the AI and commercial content studio of Dirty Monkey Pictures, founded by director Ning Hao. We are in Beijing and work in English and Chinese.
Dirty Monkey Pictures makes theatrical features — Crazy Stone, Dying to Survive, No More Bets, Once Upon a Time in the Middle East — and runs the 72 Transformations program that develops young directors. M72 Studio makes short-form and commercial work, AI-first: brand films, launch films, series and originals.
The two share directors, crews, art departments and IP. When a brand film needs a feature director, a production designer who has built a film set, or a spin-off from a film people have actually seen, that is what the connection is for.
China is where AI video went mainstream first — in 2026, most of the country's short dramas are AI-generated, and the models the world uses for video were largely built here. Working inside that market means our pipelines are tested at a volume and pace that is hard to find elsewhere, and our directors have had longer to learn what the tools are good for and what they are not.
For overseas clients we work on your hours for calls and reviews, and in English throughout.
M72 is short for Monkey 72: the seventy-two transformations of the Monkey King, who can become anything. It is also Dirty Monkey Pictures' name for its director program. For an AI studio, a shapeshifter with a strong personality seemed about right.