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production tracking

Promising project management tool for VFX, animation and games is intuitive enough for non-TDs, but robust enough for bigger projects.

Monday, January 6th, 2025

Studio management platform for VFX and visualization gets new scheduling, conflict detection and resource usage tracking features.

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

Heavyweight story development tool with integrations to Photoshop and Maya can now also be used in a standard web browser.

Friday, September 6th, 2024

AI tech helps VFX and animation studios generate variant schedules for projects to assess the impact of deadline and staffing changes.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Update to the studio management platform gives visual effects and motion graphics studios better tools for managing their job bids.

Friday, August 11th, 2023

Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022

Major compatibility-breaking update to the remote shot review tool adds layers system and support for OCIO 2 and OTIO.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

New free web-based production tracking tool provides a visual overview of a movie or animation.

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Production tracking system's new high-level overviews show which artists in a studio are over- or under-worked.

Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

Sizeable update to the CG studio management platform reworks artists' timecards, and introduces a new rules-based payroll system.

Saturday, July 17th, 2021

Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021