ShotGrid is a project management software owned by Autodesk. ShotGrid is primarily used for visual effects and animation project management in television shows and movie production and video game development.
| ShotGrid | |
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| Original author(s) | Shotgun Software |
| Developer(s) | Autodesk, Inc. |
| Initial release | 2009 |
| Written in | Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Python |
| Type | Project management |
| Website | www |
ShotGrid Software was originally founded as Shotgun Software, by Don Parker and Isaac Reuben in 2006. They created it to build a project management tool for Disney's The Wild. Originally, the product focused primarily on production tracking and later added more functionalities. [1] [2]
The first version of Shotgun was released privately two weeks after the first code was written. Shotgun then spent three and a half years in private beta. The product was launched publicly in 2009 at SIGGRAPH. [1]
In June 2014, Shotgun was acquired by Autodesk. [3]
In 2017, Shotgun won an Engineering Emmy. [4]
In February 2020, Don Parker announced Sarah Hodges would be taking over as head of Shotgun. [5]
In February 2021, Don Parker and four other Shotgun employees were awarded Sci-Tech Oscars for the development of Shotgun in the Technical Achievement category. [6]
In June 2021, Autodesk changed the name of the software to ShotGrid. [7]
In March 2024, Autodesk changed the name again of the software to Flow Production Tracking. [8]
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