Shotgun Software will be formally releasing their “Shotgun”  production tracking and collaboration system next week at SIGGRAPH, and already has an impressive collection of 170 clients covering the visual effects, video games, and post production industries.  In addition, they’ll be launching a new Open Source project enabling users and developers to write their own extensions and addons to the Shotgun framework.

“We recognize it is not practical to build a single ‘pipeline in a box’ that works for all studios. Instead, we’re building an application framework and an open-sourced ‘box of pipeline parts’ that provides a growing suite of tools that studios can use to quickly bootstrap together parts of their pipelines,” said Don Parker, CEO Shotgun Software.

You’ll be able to see Shotgun and preview the upcoming v2.1 at SIGGRAPH, as well as attend presentations from users and partners.

via Shotgun Coming out of Beta at SIGGRAPH 2010 With Over 170 Clients Worldwide – Shotgun Software – pitchengine.com.