Projectal gets your team on the same page, working off the same real-time data to deliver your VFX projects on time and on budget.
Accurate bids are critical, but bidding spreadsheets rely on mostly guesswork and magic formulas. Two bidding producers will typically produce two different estimates, and rarely incorporate actual numbers from previous projects. This causes immense financial pain to a VFX studio during the production and delivery phases of a project.
VFX 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 VFX studios. Inefficiencies in projects and staff management are typically caused by the use of off-the-shelf software or unwieldy, homegrown tools.
Management teams at VFX 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, VFX studios often find themselves in recurring daily and weekly meetings to make sure tasks are kept on track. This directly affects productivity, leading to team friction and mistakes.
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 from a task to entire season.
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 crew requirements.
Import client 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 ShotGrid or ftrack.
Track studio's software & hardware licensing requirements. Track and plan render farm size based on upcoming projects.
The Projectal API and Python client library allows connectors to be created to fully integrate the workflow and tools used by your business.
Projectal automatically imports data from ShotGrid or ftrack, 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.
Off-the-shelf or bespoke tools just don't cut it anymore at VFX studios. Projectal is a best-of-breed software tool that unifies your data and your team.
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