Projectal brings your data and team together for on-time, on-budget delivery of your next feature or series.
Management teams at animation studios lack the visibility and tools to know which staff are best utilized for current and future projects and tasks. This leads to under allocation, over allocation and poor planning of the staff pool within a studio.
With no single source of trustworthy project and staff data, animation studios often find themselves in endless meetings to make sure tasks are kept on track. This directly affects productivity, leading to team friction and mistakes.
Accurate bids are critical, but budgeting spreadsheets rely on mostly guesses and magic formulas. Two producers will typically produce two different estimates, and rarely incorporate actual numbers from previous projects. This causes immense financial pain to the animation studio during production and delivery phases.
Animation projects today are based on cost-plus pricing. Profit margins are susceptible to being quickly eaten away when projects and staff are not managed effectively within a studio. Inefficiencies in projects and staff management are typically caused by the use of off-the-shelf software or unwieldy, homegrown tools.
Our industry-leading AI and Machine Learning features will solve your pain points.
Projectal unifies your studio's data and your team to greatly improve efficiencies.
Use fully interactive task sheets, Gantt charts and Kanban boards. Add deadlines, constraints and source material from clients. Use auto scheduling to optimize your project.
Quickly change your project schedule due to change requests. Perform what-if scenarios to understand effect on costs and timing. Full history of all changes are stored.
Create your own dashboards to know when deliverables are ready. Get alerts when milestones occur. Monitor budget vs. actuals.
At project completion, review the full history of projects to know what went right and wrong. Review budget vs. actuals. Review staff performance.
View real-time updates on dashboards. Drill into past, current and future projects. Plan for studio growth, new projects and staffing requirements.
Import customer bids and use Machine Learning (ML) to identify data points of interest. Create bids using 'what-if' scenarios. Learn from previous projects.
View real-time budget vs. actuals. Track project costs and milestones. Export data to finance and payroll software.
View crew sheets. Understand staffing requirements on upcoming projects. Auto sync staff data with HR software.
Manage all projects and staff pool. Track work in progress (WIP). Conduct project post mortems. Create reports.
Manage department staff pool. Track department tasks. Run team sprints and kanban boards.
Manage projects from start to finish. Track projects, assets, shots and tasks. Track budget vs. actuals. Keep detailed notes.
Track projects, assets, shots and tasks. Liaise with artists. Provide feedback. Create reports.
Create project plans and schedules. Track and manage projects, assets, shots and tasks. Manage incoming change requests.
View task list and projects on dashboards. Enter task progress and actuals. Auto sync task data with Toon Boom.
Track studio's software & hardware licensing requirements. Track and plan render farm size based on upcoming projects.
The Projectal API allows connectors to be created to fully integrate the workflow and tools used by your animation studio.
Projectal automatically imports data from ShotGrid, ftrack or Toon Boom, along with HR and timesheet systems.
Keep the data in your tools in sync and up-to-date with Projectal's API and webhooks.
Export financial data and staff working hours from Projectal to your finance and payroll systems.
Animation studios that use off-the-shelf or bespoke tools will continue to suffer pain. Projectal is a best-of-breed software tool that unifies your data and your team.
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