About
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Stalker is a Production Asset Management (ProdAM) System designed specifically
for Animation and VFX Studios and licensed under BSD License.

Features:
 * Platform independent
 * Flexible design
 * Designed for animation and vfx studios
 * Default installation handles nearly all the asset management needs of an
   animation and vfx studio
 * Customisable with configuration scripts
 * Customisable object model (Stalker Object Model - SOM)
 * Integrated messaging system
 * Integrated production planing and tracking tools
 * PySide user interfaces
 * Can be used with any kind of databases supported by SQLAlchemy
 * Can be connected to all the major 3d animation packages like Maya, Houdini,
   Nuke, XSI, Vue, Blender etc. and any application that has a Python API
 * Can work as a stand-alone application

Stalker is build over these other OpenSource projects:
 * Python
 * SQLAlchemy
 * Jinja2
 * Beaker
 * PySide
 * Pyramid

Source
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The latest development version is available in `Google Project page of
Stalker`_ or can be directly cloned with the following command if you already
have mercurial installed::

  hg clone https://stalker.googlecode.com/hg/ stalker

.. _Google Project page of Stalker: http://code.google.com/p/stalker/