{"id":337,"date":"2017-06-14T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:57:49","slug":"nuke-and-shotgun-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Nuke and Shotgun Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my years at the Molecule in NYC, first as a freelancer and then as a perma-lancer, I had lots of time to observe how a mid-sized studio manages the sometimes huge number of shots that need to be kept track of on a daily basis. When I started, the studio was using Ftrack to manage its shot pipeline, and while poking around online I saw that ftrack had a python API, and a lightbulb went off – Nuke + Python + Ftrack = ? <\/code>Awesomeness, anyway.<\/p>\n

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So I went to work on building a nuke-based shot tracking system, first for artists but then expanding to include supervisors as well. I called it “the dashboard”, and though it started small it quickly became essential to the Molecule’s pipeline. When the studio switched tracking packages to Shotgun, a lot more functionality was exposed and the whole thing just got 50% better. You can catch a quick glimpse of it in this promotional video from Autodesk – at around 0:55 in this video, the awesome Rick Shick talks about how he uses it instead of the web-based interface almost exclusively in his role as comp supervisor:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/vimeo.com\/211000897<\/del><\/p>\n

Alas, time has taken away Rick’s kind words. Trust me that they were very flattering!<\/p>\n

Gone were the days of manually creating contact sheets for each project; now every artist and supervisor had access to dynamic contact sheets, through which they could see and change statuses, read and post notes and images, and quickly open any shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my years at the Molecule in NYC, first as a freelancer and then as a perma-lancer, I had lots of time to observe how a mid-sized studio manages the sometimes huge number of shots that need to be kept track of on a daily basis. When I started, the studio was using Ftrack to …<\/span> Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"molecule-style","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuke","category-python","category-technical-direction","category-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}