Progress tracking and daily status report generation

Purpose

1.1. Automate status tracking and daily progress report generation throughout the animation pipeline (storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing).
1.2. Aggregate updates from multiple project management, asset management, and communication tools.
1.3. Deliver real-time status summaries to managers and teams, improving oversight, accountability, and timely issue identification.
1.4. Enable consistent archiving and versioning of daily reports for auditing and reference.
1.5. Free artists and coordinators from manual reporting, focusing efforts on creative and higher-value tasks.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Periodic time-based triggers (e.g., nightly at 11:59 PM).
2.2. Manual trigger by production leads seeking on-demand updates.
2.3. Asset status change (e.g., task/completion/milestone in asset management tool).
2.4. New comment or submission in production chat channels.
2.5. Critical task flagged or delay detected in the workflow platform.

Platform Variants

3.1. Jira
• API Endpoint: /rest/api/3/search for ticket status; /rest/api/3/issue for details.
• Config: Query tickets by project and status updated in the last 24h.
3.2. Trello
• API: GET /1/boards/{id}/cards; GET /1/cards/{id}/actions.
• Config: Pull card movements in animation production board per day.
3.3. Asana
• Endpoint: GET /projects/{project_gid}/tasks; GET /tasks/{task_gid}/stories.
• Config: List all tasks updated within the reporting period.
3.4. Monday.com
• Feature: Boards & Updates API (items_by_column_values).
• Config: Retrieve task status and comments from animation pipeline board.
3.5. ShotGrid
• REST API: /entity/Shot; /entity/Task.
• Config: Pull status, notes, and time-logs for shots in production.
3.6. Slack
• Feature: Conversations.history method; Scheduled Messages.
• Config: Scan production channels for key updates; post daily summary to #production-reports.
3.7. Discord
• Bot Integration: GET channel messages; Webhook for report delivery.
• Config: Filter messages tagged with progress or status updates.
3.8. Google Sheets
• API: Sheets.values.get & .update.
• Config: Pull updates from mapped tracking sheets; write report to master report sheet.
3.9. Smartsheet
• Feature: List Rows API.
• Config: Aggregate changes to rows marked as tasks or milestones.
3.10. ClickUp
• Endpoint: /api/v2/task; /api/v2/list.
• Config: Retrieve all updates for tasks within animation workspace.
3.11. Notion
• API: Database Query; Pages API.
• Config: Query database for status and timeline updates.
3.12. Wrike
• Endpoint: /tasks; /timelogs.
• Config: List tasks changed or commented upon today.
3.13. Basecamp
• Feature: To-dos API; Message Boards.
• Config: Capture completed to-dos and posted dailies.
3.14. Airtable
• Endpoint: List records.
• Config: Search and filter by date-modified for current asset records.
3.15. GitLab
• Feature: Issues API; Merge Requests API.
• Config: Extract pipeline, status changes, and code deliverables merged.
3.16. GitHub
• API: GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues; /pulls.
• Config: Collate updates from project issue board, PR activity.
3.17. Zendesk
• Endpoint: GET /api/v2/tickets; Events API.
• Config: Report production-related requests or issues opened and resolved.
3.18. Microsoft Teams
• Feature: Channel Messages Graph API.
• Config: Retrieve messages tagged for status, send daily recaps to animation leads.
3.19. Google Drive
• API: Files.list, Permissions.
• Config: Identify new/edited animatic or render asset uploads in production folders.
3.20. Dropbox
• Endpoint: /files/list_folder; /files/get_metadata.
• Config: Log file changes in shared production directories and summarize daily activity.
3.21. Smartsupp
• API: Conversation list, message count.
• Config: Include studio-client discussion counts as client feedback metric.
3.22. Email (SMTP, Gmail API, Microsoft Graph)
• Config: Schedule dispatch to distribution list with report attachment or body.

Benefits

4.1. Eliminates tedious manual progress tracking and reduces human error.
4.2. Provides leadership with up-to-date, cross-platform production visibility.
4.3. Standardizes reporting for fast comparison and decision-making.
4.4. Brings immediate attention to bottlenecks or overdue assets.
4.5. Scales seamlessly with team size and project complexity.
4.6. Archives a reliable project activity log for QA, onboarding, or postmortems.