ShotGrid is a

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owned by

Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquarte ...

. ShotGrid is primarily used for visual effects and animation project management in television shows and movie production and video game development.

History

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

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.'' Originally, the product focused primarily on production tracking and later added more functionalities. 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

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Merger with Autodesk

In June 2014, Shotgun was acquired by

. In 2017, Shotgun won an Engineering Emmy. In February 2020, Don Parker announced Sarah Hodges would be taking over as head of Shotgun. 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.

Name change

In June 2021, Autodesk changed the name of the software to ShotGrid. In March 2024, Autodesk changed the name again of the software to Flow Production Tracking.https://forum.logik.tv/t/shotgrid-becomes-autodesk-flow-production-tracking/10309

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