The shotgun pipeline toolkit
Josh Tomlinson, Manne Öhrström, Don Parker · 2017
This talk presents the motivations and goals for developing the Shotgun Pipeline Toolkit (Toolkit), a platform for building, customizing, and evolving production pipelines. We cover the challenges of developing a product that is valuable for studios of all types and sizes, supports common operating systems, and is easy to use; all while providing the flexibility and customizability required by creative studios. We will show the evolution of Toolkit from concept to release and the lessons learned trying to build pipeline components traditionally found only in studios with large development budgets. Finally, we look at recent work to reduce the barrier to entry to Toolkit as a step towards democratizing pipeline.