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ShotGrid

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid, Shotgun Software) is a cloud-based project management and production tracking software designed for the media and entertainment industry, enabling teams to monitor assets, schedules, budgets, and reviews in real time across visual effects (VFX), animation, film, television, and video game production.^[1] Launched in 2006, acquired by Autodesk in 2014, and rebranded multiple times, it specializes in scalable, collaborative tools for creative pipelines, integrating with applications like Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max to streamline workflows from pre-production to final delivery.^[2]^[3] As a core component of Autodesk's Flow platform, it provides a unified platform replacing fragmented tools, with features such as customizable task lists, version control for media assets, in-context feedback during reviews, advanced reporting dashboards, and API integrations, improving efficiency for distributed teams.^[4]^[1] By 2024, it incorporated AI-driven scheduling and resource planning while retaining focus on collaborative review and asset management.^[5] Widely used by studios worldwide, it has powered productions including Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Studios for game asset tracking, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio by ShadowMachine for VFX coordination, and various animation pipelines at Untold Studios, demonstrating its role in scaling complex creative endeavors while optimizing artist workloads and deadlines.^[1] Its subscription model, priced at $390 per user annually (as of 2025), supports cloud accessibility via web, mobile, and desktop, ensuring seamless collaboration in remote environments.^[1]

Overview

Purpose and core functionality

ShotGrid, now officially known as Autodesk Flow Production Tracking, is a scalable, cloud-based production management software tailored for the media and entertainment industries, including film, television, visual effects, and animation. As a browser-based tool, it provides a centralized platform for project tracking, asset management, and pipeline automation, enabling creative studios to streamline complex workflows across distributed teams.^[1] At its core, ShotGrid facilitates real-time visibility into production pipelines by allowing users to monitor progress, assign tasks, track deadlines, and allocate resources efficiently. This functionality supports the orchestration of creative processes, from initial concept development to final delivery, by unifying data and collaboration in a single, secure environment. By providing actionable insights through customizable dashboards and reporting, it helps production managers optimize workflows and mitigate bottlenecks.^[4] Fundamental to ShotGrid's structure are key entities that serve as the building blocks for organizing media production data. These include Shots, which represent individual scenes or sequences in a project; Assets, encompassing reusable elements like characters or environments; Tasks, for breaking down work assignments; Versions, to track iterations of creative outputs; and Notes, for capturing feedback and annotations. These interconnected entities form a relational database schema that ensures data consistency and enables seamless navigation through the production hierarchy.^[6]^[7] Over its development, ShotGrid has grown from basic project tracking capabilities into a robust system for comprehensive workflow orchestration, adapting to the demands of modern creative pipelines while maintaining its focus on efficiency and collaboration.^[1]

Ownership and current naming

Shotgun Software, the original developer of the production tracking platform, was acquired by Autodesk on June 25, 2014, with the transaction closing during Autodesk's fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2014.^[3] This acquisition integrated the software into Autodesk's media and entertainment portfolio, enhancing its cloud-based solutions for film, television, and games production by combining Shotgun's specialized tools with Autodesk's broader design and collaboration ecosystem.^[3] The platform, launched as Shotgun Software in 2006, underwent its first major rebranding to ShotGrid on June 7, 2021.^[8] This change better reflected its core functionality as a grid-like system for managing interconnected data and workflows in creative production.^[9] On March 26, 2024, the software was rebranded again to Autodesk Flow Production Tracking as part of Autodesk's broader initiative to unify its media and entertainment offerings under the "Flow" industry cloud platform.^[5]^[10] The rebranding aimed to position the tool within an interconnected ecosystem that connects people, workflows, and data across the production lifecycle, from concept to delivery, leveraging Autodesk's Design and Make platform to foster greater collaboration and efficiency.^[10] As of 2025, the platform officially operates under the Autodesk Flow Production Tracking name, though references to its legacy ShotGrid branding persist widely in industry discussions, documentation, and user communities due to established familiarity.^[1]^[11]

History

Founding and early years

Shotgun Software was established in 2006 in Venice, California, by visual effects professionals Don Parker and Isaac Reuben, who had previously collaborated on an internal pipeline management tool at a VFX studio.^[12]^[13] The founders aimed to create a standardized system for production management and review to address inefficiencies in tracking complex visual effects workflows. That same year, the company launched its flagship product, Shotgun, as a cloud-based platform for tracking shots, assets, and tasks in film and VFX pipelines, moving beyond rudimentary tools like spreadsheets to enable scalable collaboration.^[3] Early development focused on providing managers and artists with web-accessible tools for scheduling, review, and asset oversight, quickly gaining adoption among studios seeking streamlined production processes.^[14] In the ensuing years, Shotgun solidified its position in the VFX and animation sectors through key partnerships. Blue Sky Studios integrated the software in 2011 to manage production tracking and enhance team collaboration on animated films.^[15] Likewise, LAIKA adopted a site-wide license in 2012, using it to organize workflows and automate aspects of feature film production.^[16] A significant advancement occurred in 2013 with the integration of Tank, an asset management system, into the broader Shotgun platform as the Pipeline Toolkit, which debuted at SIGGRAPH and allowed studios to connect digital content creation tools more effectively.^[17]^[18] This period marked rapid growth, with the company building a user base exceeding 500 customers and securing funding, including pre-acquisition convertible debt from Autodesk.^[3]^[19]

Acquisition by Autodesk

On June 25, 2014, Autodesk announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Shotgun Software, a developer of cloud-based production tracking, review, and asset management tools for the media and entertainment industries.^[3] The transaction closed on June 27, 2014, for a total consideration of $54.5 million, consisting of $51.2 million in cash and $3.3 million in fair value from Autodesk's prior convertible debt investment in Shotgun.^[20] This acquisition integrated Shotgun into Autodesk's Media & Entertainment (M&E) segment, with $43.2 million of the purchase price allocated to goodwill, reflecting expectations of synergies in production management solutions.^[20] The strategic rationale centered on enhancing Autodesk's offerings in the film, television, and games sectors by combining Shotgun's scalable cloud platform with Autodesk's established creative tools, such as Maya, 3ds Max, and Flame.^[3] Autodesk aimed to streamline VFX and animation pipelines, enabling studios to better manage complex, globally distributed projects through improved collaboration, tracking, and asset handling.^[21] By leveraging Shotgun's expertise in cloud and on-premises deployment, the deal supported Autodesk's broader push toward cloud-based workflows, accelerating innovation in production processes while maintaining open standards for multi-vendor integrations like FBX and Alembic.^[22] Immediately following the acquisition, Shotgun continued to operate independently under its existing leadership, with founder Don Parker leading a new Production Services group within Autodesk to preserve its culture and customer-focused processes.^[21] Subscriptions and support remained unchanged, ensuring no disruptions for users, while the Shotgun website and forums stayed at shotgunsoftware.com.^[21] Enhanced R&D resources, including a tripling of engineering capacity, were directed toward improving platform scalability and reliability.^[21] In the early post-acquisition period, developments focused on bolstering API capabilities to facilitate deeper integrations with third-party tools and Autodesk products, promoting broader industry adoption among VFX and animation studios handling large-scale projects.^[22] The platform received significant industry recognition, including a 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for its contributions to production management and a 2021 Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the foundational engineering of the system.^[23]^[24] These investments laid the groundwork for expanded use in collaborative environments, contributing to a 168% year-over-year increase in Autodesk's Animation revenue by fiscal 2016 as Shotgun's full-year results were incorporated.^[20]

Rebranding timeline

Following its acquisition by Autodesk in 2014, the software underwent its first major rebranding in 2021. Effective June 7, 2021, with the release of version 8.26, the product formerly known as Shotgun was renamed ShotGrid to better reflect its core architecture as a connected data grid for production workflows.^[8]^[9] The new name emphasized the platform's role in facilitating networked collaboration and efficiency in media and entertainment pipelines, aligning with Autodesk's vision for integrated creative tools.^[25] This update also included user interface enhancements, such as improved navigation and visual elements, alongside a simplification of subscription tiers to a single plan at $40 per user per month, eliminating the previous "Awesome" and "Super Awesome" options.^[26]^[27] The second rebranding occurred in 2024 as part of Autodesk's expansion of its cloud-based media ecosystem. On March 26, 2024, coinciding with release 8.61, ShotGrid was renamed Autodesk Flow Production Tracking to integrate it into the broader "Flow" suite of services for media and entertainment production.^[28]^[10] This change positioned the tool as a foundational component of Autodesk Flow, focusing on seamless data flow across creative processes without altering core functionality, URLs, or APIs.^[5] Documentation and associated microsites were updated to reflect the new branding, while legacy references to "ShotGrid" persisted in industry usage and some technical contexts.^[5]^[1] User impacts from both rebrands were designed to be minimal, with Autodesk committing to no disruptions in API compatibility or operational workflows.^[5]^[8] However, the 2024 change drew some community feedback regarding the longer name's effect on searchability, resume listings, and minor configuration adjustments in custom integrations.^[11] Despite this, Autodesk maintained backward compatibility, allowing continued use under familiar terms like "ShotGrid" in professional parlance.^[1] These rebrands supported Autodesk's strategic evolution toward unified cloud ecosystems, improving interoperability with complementary tools such as Flow Capture for media ingestion and review.^[10] By embedding the platform within Flow, the changes aimed to streamline end-to-end production tracking across film, VFX, and animation sectors.^[5]

Features

Project tracking and management

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) provides robust tracking mechanisms to monitor production elements such as shots, assets, and tasks through real-time dashboards that display progress and status updates across the pipeline.^[4] These dashboards support customizable fields for metadata, including task status, due dates, and dependencies, allowing teams to tailor views to specific project needs by linking entities like tasks to shots or assets.^[7] For instance, producers can filter and sort tasks by upstream dependencies or sequence status, ensuring visibility into hierarchical relationships without manual reconfiguration.^[29] In terms of management features, Autodesk Flow Production Tracking incorporates AI-powered scheduling via Flow Generative Scheduling, introduced in July 2024, which generates resource-optimized schedules by balancing workloads, respecting dependencies, and adapting to changes like priority shifts or delays.^[30] Resource planning views enable assessment of artist capacity and workload distribution, with tools like burndown charts and time series graphs to visualize deadline adherence and progress trends.^[4] These features support both episodic and feature-length projects by allowing flexible scaling of task assignments and visualizations to match production scope.^[31] Workflow automation in Autodesk Flow Production Tracking is facilitated through pipeline configurations that define task hierarchies and automate status reporting, such as assigning tasks to users and triggering updates upon completion.^[31] Notifications are configurable to alert teams via email or in-app inbox for events like task assignments, dependency changes, or status updates, streamlining communication without external tools.^[32] Task templates further automate repetitive setups by predefining hierarchies and dependencies, applicable across entity types like assets or shots.^[33] Reporting tools, including Production Insights, offer visualizations such as graph widgets, status history charts, and burndown metrics to track task completion rates and overall production health, with data export capabilities for further analysis.^[4] These insights help monitor budget adherence by integrating time-logged data against planned durations, providing producers with actionable overviews of resource utilization.^[34]

Review and collaboration tools

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) provides robust review workflows that enable teams to annotate media directly within the context of production versions, facilitating precise feedback during creative iterations. Users can submit versions through the Media App by uploading files such as QuickTime videos, adding descriptions, and automatically generating thumbnails for review. Supervisors and artists access these versions via filters like "Unviewed" to prioritize incoming work, supporting frame-accurate playback for detailed examination of sequences. Annotations are applied in-context by drawing directly on specific frames, allowing reviewers to highlight issues or suggestions with visual markers and accompanying text, which streamlines communication without leaving the platform. This process supports high-resolution media playback, including up to 4K with color-accurate rendering on web, mobile, and desktop interfaces, ensuring fidelity for professional evaluations.^[35]^[4]^[36] Collaboration is enhanced through features that promote synchronized teamwork across distributed environments. Real-time updates notify users via an inbox system, delivering thumbnails of annotated frames and version changes to keep teams aligned on progress. Version history tracking automatically logs all submissions, revisions, and associated metadata, providing a complete audit trail accessible during reviews. Role-based access controls govern permissions, with customizable roles determining who can view, annotate, or approve content—such as restricting client access to read-only playlists while granting artists full editing rights. Playlists serve as curated collections of versions, enabling directors and supervisors to organize sequences for group sessions, like stereoscopic reviews in collaborative settings, and share them securely via the Client Review Site for external stakeholders. These tools foster coordination by linking reviews briefly to project tasks, allowing feedback to inform assignments without disrupting workflow focus.^[1]^[4]^[37]^[38] Feedback mechanisms in Autodesk Flow Production Tracking emphasize structured and traceable exchanges to resolve issues efficiently. Notes are created during playback, threaded to allow reply chains where responses build on original annotations, maintaining context for ongoing discussions. Automated note assignments default to the version creator or specified users via addressing fields, ensuring relevant parties receive targeted notifications; for instance, client notes are routed based on submission metadata. Integration with dailies processing supports daily review pipelines through tools like Screening Room, where sequences are queued for group feedback sessions, capturing director or producer input in real-time. Note statuses—such as "Open" or "Closed"—track resolution, with unread indicators (bold titles) alerting users to new replies or updates, promoting accountability across the team.^[39]^[40]^[41] Recent enhancements have refined these capabilities for better auditing and interactivity. In 2022, updates to the Page Settings History Panel introduced more detailed change logs, including iteration-specific metadata, aiding in the review of historical annotations and version evolutions. The 2025 public beta of Creative Review further advanced collaboration with live synchronized sessions, enabling multiple users to annotate simultaneously using features like hold/ghost overlays for temporary markers and compare modes for side-by-side evaluations, reducing iteration cycles in dynamic pipelines. These developments build on core note history tracking, providing comprehensive visibility into feedback trails for compliance and process optimization.^[42]^[43]

Integrations and customization

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) provides robust API and developer tools to enable custom scripting, event-driven automation, and schema customization for integrating into production pipelines. Its RESTful API (version 1.1) allows developers to interact with data programmatically, supporting operations like querying entities, updating records, and managing workflows through HTTP requests.^[44] The Python SDK, an official library maintained by Autodesk, facilitates deeper integrations by offering a simple interface for accessing Autodesk Flow Production Tracking data and automating tasks within Python-based environments.^[45] Additionally, webhooks enable event-driven automation by notifying external systems of changes, such as entity updates or task assignments, triggering scripts for real-time responses.^[46] Native integrations connect Autodesk Flow Production Tracking seamlessly with Autodesk products and select third-party tools, enhancing software entity management across creative applications. It supports direct launches and data syncing with tools like Maya, Nuke, and Flame, allowing users to publish assets, versions, and tasks directly from these applications to Autodesk Flow Production Tracking.^[47] For Autodesk products, the Pipeline Toolkit includes dedicated engines, such as the Maya engine for asset loading and scene management.^[48] Third-party support extends to Adobe After Effects via a dedicated engine that integrates publishing workflows, and to Unreal Engine for real-time asset handoffs.^[49]^[4] Flame integrations cater to finishing workflows, enabling review and approval directly within the tool.^[50] Customization options allow administrators to tailor Autodesk Flow Production Tracking to specific production needs through schema editing, page layouts, and add-ons. Schema customization involves modifying entity fields, workflows, and relationships to match studio processes, with best practices recommending centralized management by a small team for consistency.^[51] Page layouts can be designed globally or per project using Design Mode, incorporating widgets like grids, thumbnails, and dashboards for intuitive data visualization.^[52] Add-ons such as the Pipeline Toolkit (formerly Tank) support asset pipelines by automating folder structures and file naming conventions.^[53] Admin controls for site preferences manage global settings, including email layouts, user defaults, and permissions, accessible via the Admin menu.^[54] Extensibility examples demonstrate practical applications, such as building custom reports with canvas or list pages featuring graphs and countdowns for production insights.^[55] Automation of deliveries can be achieved through scripts triggered by events, streamlining asset handoffs in VFX pipelines.^[56] Integration with cloud storage, via Media Isolation, allows direct uploads to user-owned AWS S3 buckets for secure media handling while maintaining Autodesk Flow Production Tracking's transcoding capabilities.^[57]

Applications and adoption

Use in film, VFX, and animation

ShotGrid plays a central role in film and visual effects (VFX) production by enabling end-to-end tracking of shot progress, from previsualization (pre-vis) through modeling, animation, lighting, and compositing stages. Studios leverage its pipeline tools to manage complex workflows, ensuring seamless handoffs between departments and real-time updates on asset status. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Image Engine utilized ShotGrid to transition over 280 artists to a fully remote setup for the VFX on Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), streamlining communication, schedules, dailies reviews, and notes without direct access to artists' digital content creation (DCC) software. This allowed efficient resource planning and adaptation to virtual production demands, maintaining project momentum across global teams.^[58] In animation production, ShotGrid supports asset management for character rigs, sequences, and puppet elements, particularly in both computer-generated (CG) and stop-motion pipelines. Blue Sky Studios integrated ShotGrid (then known as Shotgun) to enhance production management and collaboration across its CG feature animation projects, facilitating coordinated workflows among artists and producers. Similarly, LAIKA employs ShotGrid's cloud-based platform to handle intricate stop-motion and CG tasks, managing up to 12,000 tasks for 300 puppet assets involving 60 team members in recent films, with integrations for data modeling and task assignment to character rigs and sequences.^[59]^[60] The platform delivers key benefits in these sectors by reducing administrative overhead and enhancing scalability for large teams. Orka Postproduction reported a 60% decrease in producers' manual workloads through ShotGrid's automation of project structuring, file management, and versioning, supporting over 60 seats for dozens of global VFX projects like Rambo V: Last Blood. Juice VFX & Sound Studio experienced significant time savings by organizing file versions and minimizing tracking efforts, allowing creative teams to focus on animation and effects delivery rather than administrative clutter. Standardized reporting further streamlines operations; Netflix mandates ShotGrid for VFX status updates in film and episodic TV, using vendor-specific templates to map shots, assets, and progress consistently across productions. For example, Fin Design + Effects utilized Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) for VFX workflow management on the 2023 film The Creator, integrating open standards for efficient asset handling and collaboration.^[61]^[62]^[63]^[64] As an industry standard, ShotGrid has become a go-to solution for episodic television, feature films, and set extension work in VFX-heavy productions, with its robust integrations minimizing helpdesk interventions by providing self-service tracking and review capabilities. Studios like those producing major 3D episodic content deploy it alongside tools like Maya to optimize pipelines, ensuring scalability from small sequences to large-scale deliveries.^[65]

Expansion to games and other sectors

ShotGrid's expansion into the gaming industry began in 2013 when Shotgun Software, its predecessor, announced a tailored version optimized for game developers. This adaptation focused on asset tracking within game pipelines, enabling efficient management of level design, prototyping, and iterative cycles that differ from linear production processes. The platform's features for production tracking and collaborative review were enhanced to support the non-linear workflows common in game development, such as rapid prototyping and version control for assets like models and environments.^[66]^[67] Adoption in gaming grew significantly following Autodesk's 2014 acquisition, with integrations like those with Unreal Engine facilitating seamless collaboration for artists and developers. For instance, Larian Studios utilized ShotGrid to streamline pipelines during the production of Baldur's Gate 3, leveraging scheduling and app connectivity to manage complex asset iterations across distributed teams. Similarly, AAA studios have employed it alongside tools like Jira for bridging creative and engineering workflows, highlighting its role in handling the scale of modern game projects.^[3]^[1]^[68]^[69] Beyond gaming, ShotGrid extended into automotive design workflows around 2019, with demonstrations showcasing its application in studio asset management and review processes. Honda R&D Americas implemented Shotgun-enabled workflows to digitize design studios, improving efficiency in managing digital assets, schedules, and team collaborations for vehicle prototyping. Renault similarly adopted it to connect designers, tasks, and production timelines, addressing challenges in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams for iterative design reviews. This cross-industry use was driven by the platform's flexibility in supporting non-linear, asset-heavy processes, enhanced by Autodesk's cloud-based tools for remote collaboration post-acquisition.^[70]^[71]^[72] Adapting ShotGrid to these sectors required custom configurations to accommodate gaming's emphasis on rapid iterations and automotive's focus on precise asset versioning, contrasting with more sequential media pipelines. Developers often customize dashboards and views to align with game-specific needs like level building or automotive surfacing tasks, while community resources provide guidance on tailoring schemas for such verticals. These adaptations have enabled broader adoption, though initial setup demands investment in pipeline configuration to overcome workflow mismatches.^[73]^[74]^[75]

Technical aspects

System architecture

ShotGrid operates on Autodesk's secure cloud infrastructure, primarily hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using a multi-tenant microservices architecture for enhanced scalability and resource efficiency.^[76] This setup enables browser-based access from any device without the need for local software installation, allowing teams to interact with the platform seamlessly across global locations.^[77] At its core, ShotGrid utilizes a relational database model powered by Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, organizing data through predefined entities such as Projects, Assets, Shots, Tasks, and Versions, which are interconnected via multi-entity links and augmented with customizable metadata fields.^[76] An integrated event framework monitors a real-time event stream, generating entries for every entity creation, modification, or retirement to facilitate immediate synchronization, automated workflows, and comprehensive auditing of changes.^[78] Security is enforced through role-based permission systems, where administrators define granular access levels via customizable roles that control entity visibility, editing rights, and administrative functions.^[37] Media assets are stored in encrypted Amazon S3 buckets with 256-bit AES encryption at rest and SSL/TLS for data in transit, supporting high-volume productions through read replicas and auto-scaling for consistent performance.^[76] The architecture includes global distribution capabilities to ensure low-latency playback and processing for distributed teams handling large-scale media files.^[76] Following Autodesk's acquisition of Shotgun Software in 2014, ShotGrid underwent significant enhancements to deepen integration with Autodesk's broader cloud services, including improved API connectivity for ecosystem tools like Maya and Flame.^[3] In 2024, as part of the rebranding to Autodesk Flow Production Tracking within the new Flow ecosystem, it integrated more closely with Autodesk's media and entertainment offerings.^[5] Customization is further enabled through robust APIs that allow extensions without altering the core system.

Deployment and pricing

ShotGrid, rebranded as Autodesk Flow Production Tracking, operates primarily as a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform accessible through web browsers, enabling seamless access without on-premises infrastructure for most users.^[1] For enterprise organizations requiring greater control, self-hosted deployment options exist via the Flow Production Tracking Enterprise Console, which allows management of dedicated sites on internal servers, including integration with local desktop applications through APIs.^[79] Setup typically begins with site creation in the Autodesk account portal, followed by schema import for pipeline configurations and user onboarding to assign roles and permissions.^[80] Implementation proceeds through administrative configuration of projects, tasks, and workflows; testing integrations with creative tools such as Maya or Unreal Engine using the Toolkit API; and conducting user training sessions to ensure adoption.^[81] For large-scale enterprise deployments, Autodesk provides dedicated support, including customized onboarding and performance optimization to handle high-volume production environments.^[82] Pricing follows a subscription-based model unified under Autodesk since 2021, with per-user licensing at $50 per month or $390 annually as of 2025.^[1] Volume discounts apply for teams exceeding certain thresholds, and a 30-day free trial is available for evaluation.^[83] Additional costs may arise from optional add-ons for enhanced storage beyond standard limits or advanced analytics features, though core reporting tools are included in base subscriptions.^[84] Bundled pricing is available when combined with other Autodesk products like Maya, providing cost savings for integrated pipelines in film and VFX workflows.^[85]

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