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

They created it to build a project management tool for Disney's The Wild.

[1][2] The first version of Shotgun was released privately two weeks after the first code was written.

[4] In February 2020, Don Parker announced Sarah Hodges would be taking over as head of Shotgun.

[7] In March 2024, Autodesk changed the name again of the software to Flow Production Tracking.