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www.postmagazine.com 9 POST OCTOBER 2017 BITS & PIECES LOS ANGELES — Shotgun Software (https://shotgun- software.com/) has been awarded a 2017 Engineering Emmy for providing a platform widely used by visual effects (VFX) studios around the world for work com- pleted on a number of top television shows. Shotgun Software creators Don Parker, Isaac Reuben and Matt Daw will be honored with Emmy statuettes at the Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on October 25, 2017. The Television Academy honors individuals, compa- nies and organizations with Engineering Emmys each year for engineering developments that are innovative in nature and materially affect the transmission, record- ing or reception of television. Shotgun Software has helped creative teams collaborate to get hundreds of episodes of top television shows to air, including: Game of Thrones, The Americans, Quantico, Scandal, Outlander, Black Mirror, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cosmos, Legion, Fear the Walking Dead, The Flash, Hawaii Five-0 and many others. Shotgun is a production management platform designed to facilitate collaborative VFX and animation pipelines. Its suite of tools provides a central hub for teams throughout the production process, keeping ev- eryone up-to-date, avoiding wasted resources and al- lowing directors and producers to make more informed artistic decisions. "We started building Shotgun with the dream of helping worldwide teams collaborate closely to put their best work on screen," says Don Parker, co-founder of Shotgun and VP of production platform, Autodesk. "It's been an exciting ride that's lasted more than a decade, and we are deeply honored to be recognized by the Television Academy." Pixomondo is one of several visual effects compa- nies with a Shotgun-based pipeline working on Game of Thrones. "We don't have the time to make any mistakes. We have multiple tasks and artists working in parallel, so we need to be effective, avoid lag and not let things fall through the cracks. Worldwide, we all have Shotgun, and we work with the same pipe- line. We share any and all assets without any prob- lems," says Sabrina Gerhardt, COO and executive producer at Pixomondo. SHOTGUN SOFTWARE WINS 2017 ENGINEERING EMMY AWARD