Alesia Karchevskaia

Production Tracking Software for VFX and Animation

Summary

Tracktor VFX (I’m still working on the name!) is a production tracking web application, geared towards animation and VFX pipelines. In the current market of subscription-based and proprietary tools, Tracktor is aimed to give a breath of fresh air to hobbyists/freelancers, students and small teams, by facilitating their needs for VFX/anim production management, while offering a free and open sourced tier.

The web application is developed using React/Flask/SQLite stack, and its main functionality include:

user system
creation/deletion of project
shot/asset status tracking
ability to make notes for each individual asset/shot department
project sharing

In addition to the web app, Tracktor comes with a plugin for TIK Manager - an open source pipeline tool for most of the popular DCC packages. The plugin allows to pull projects into TIK from Tracktor and sync them to any changes made in Tracktor. This is to showcase the possible use case for Tracktor API and integration into the DCC tools.

The product delivered as part of the thesis is a proof of concept and is being developed further according to the roadmap.

Project’s roadmap and source code can be found here: VFX_ProdTracker

Thesis Production Tracking Software for VFX and Animation