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Autodesk’s Shotgun project management software has been used to organize and automate aspects of the production of all its feature films over the past 10 years, from Coraline to the forthcoming Missing Link. In this talk, I will present how LAIKA tackles the design and manufacturing of the assets that show up on the big screen, how we use Shotgun software to track our production data (from scheduling to final delivery and beyond), and how we have built an efficient production pipeline using Shotgun as a platform. LAIKA exists at an interesting junction between visual effects and manufacturing, producing physical assets for a digital final product. As we go through our workflows, we will also reflect on the commonalities we have seen in how to create both physical and digital assets efficiently.  \nSpeaker  \nTony Aiello's career has centered around hardware and software systems development and integration, with a particular focus on human factors and usability. Having previously applied these skills in defense R&D then machine vision and industrial automation, for the last decade he’s been living the dream in feature films, with production technology credits on Coraline , The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. As a Senior Engineer in LAIKA’s Production Technology department, he’s been building production management systems, many of which have involved pushing Autodesk’s Shotgun to new extremes.  \n[www.linkedin.com/in/tonyaiello](www.linkedin.com/in/tonyaiello)  \nIntroduction  \nFueled by the vision of its President & CEO Travis Knight, the animation studio LAIKA was founded in 2005. Located just outside of Portland, Oregon, LAIKA was awarded a Scientific and Technology Oscar® plaque in 2016 for its innovation in 3D printing. All of LAIKA’s four films: Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012), The Boxtrolls (2014) and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) were nominated for an Academy Award® for Outstanding Animated Feature. Kubo and the Two Strings also won the BAFTA for Best Animated Film and received an Oscar® nomination for Visual Effects. LAIKA’s next film, Missing Link, will be released April 12, 2019 by Annapurna Pictures. The film boasts a roster of international stars including Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana and Zach Galifianakis.  \nLAIKA combines the best traditional stop motion artistry with cutting edge technology like 3 D printing, robotics and computer graphics to tell original stories in a way people have never seen before. This results in hybrid processes and a unique style. LAIKA tries to capture as much imagery in-camera as possible, which means that we’re physically constructing much of what you finally see on screen , but nor do we shy away from making our movies as compelling as possible through digital artistry. Tracking both the digital as well as physical production of thousands of items from as small as a miniature button to as large as a 50-foot-square samurai castle set, and coordinating the efforts of all those people responsible, over the course of 3 to 4 years, is an enormously complex logistical operation for which there is no blueprint.  \nTo meet that challenge , LAIKA deployed and began investing in Shotgun in early January 2008:  \nFIGURE 1. EVENTLOGENTRY\\# 2  \nNow more than a decade later and almost exactly one month ago, LAIKA’s current production Shotgun site hit its 100 millionth EventLogEntry:  \nFIGURE 2. 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