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ShotGrid
Project management software
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.
| Original author(s) | Shotgun Software |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Autodesk, Inc. |
| Written in | Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Python |
| Type | Project management |
| Website | www |
Founding of company
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 focussed 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]
Merger with Autodesk
In June 2014, Shotgun was acquired by Autodesk.[3]
In 2017, Shotgun won a 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]
Name change
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]
- Montgomery, John. "Autodesk riding Shotgun". fxguide.
- "Autodesk acquires Shotgun Software". 25 June 2014.
- Parker, Don. "PASSING THE TORCH".
