ShotGrid is a web application that tracks all the meta-data around creative projects, while storing links to relevant files and data to help streamline everyday creative workflows.

Starting with ShotGrid

When it comes to managing complex, detailed and robust creative projects, ShotGrid is the preferred tool selected by major creative studios. But we also know that for a new studio, trying to capture your process in ShotGrid, all at once, can be overwhelming.

To help approach all of the problems ShotGrid can solve, think of these 3 key areas:

• Production management tracking to manage schedules, milestones, teams and the process
• Enhancing creative collaboration to connect teams and digitize review workflows
• integrated workflows to connect teams and their tools directly to ShotGrid to make

Common Challenges

Around the world, we hear from customers that suffer from the same high level challenges in their design process.

• Schedules are complex, with cross department dependencies, and ever changing milestones
• Collaboration between stakeholders is challenging because processes of today are manual, slow and redundant
• Data Management only exists through windows explorer and design teams don't have access to the latest, most important design data/information when they need it.

Solving Your Problems With ShotGrid

Production Management - ShotGrid can aid in scheduling by tracking the projects you work on, the things you build, the steps needed to build them and the people responsible all while creating a single source of truth around the work being done.

Creative Collaboration - Review sessions and creative feedback drive the engine of design innovation, and by capturing your review notes and decisions using Notes/Annotation in ShotGrid you can effectively collaborate as a team in one place to make sure everyone knows what they need to work on next.

Integrated Workflows - Designers, Modelers & Visualization artists can do simple data management using the integrated desktop tools with ShotGrid. This enables these teams to manage working data and publish design work to share and hand off to other departments or teams.

Our Advice

Pick one of these 3 areas and focus on this challenge at first (and don't worry about the rest of ShotGrid's tools).

For example, if your studio suffers from slow review cycles, try focusing on incorporating your review process into ShotGrid today and slowly add the other functions (scheduling and integration) later.

If your studio has challenges with File management, begin using the integrations with Photoshop, Alias or VRED to start publishing design work into ShotGrid automatically every day.

Or if you are having a hard time keeping track of many simultaneous projects, start entering Assets and Tasks into ShotGrid and assign your teams their work.