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About
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Stalker is an Open Source Production Asset Management (ProdAM) System designed 
specifically for Animation and VFX Studios but can be used for any kind of
projects. Stalker is licensed under LGPL v2.1.

Features:
 * Designed for animation and VFX Studios.
 * Platform independent.
 * Default installation handles nearly all the asset and project management 
   needs of an animation and vfx studio.
 * Customizable with configuration scripts.
 * Customizable object model (Stalker Object Model - SOM).
 * Uses TaskJuggler as the project planing and tracking backend.
 * 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, Softimage, Vue, Blender etc. and any application that has a Python
   API.

Stalker is build over these other OpenSource projects:
 * Python
 * SQLAlchemy and Alembic
 * Jinja2
 * TaskJuggler

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/
