Animation workflow, pipeline, asset management & production control.

Diego (one of this page 'recurring visitors' ) sent me this link to a tutorial in CGArena about project setup and management, with some scripts for Max. Project Setup/Management and Quality Assurance for Small Business " This tutorial is dedicated to freelancers and technical directors in smaller companies who aren´t blessed with an alienbrain server and haven't set up Asset Tracking yet. It covers Project Setup (... ) and quality assurance for a consistent production if you take some steps to heart. " The author of the tutorial, Anselm v. Seherr , is a CG freelancer (VFX, shading, texturing and compositing) for several companies. Thanks, Diego!

These are some loose links that might be useful: Other webs and repositories: Rendermania has not been updated for a while but if has a wealth of info about renderman compliant renders and also a lot of other renders & related stuff... Since 9 Sept 2000! Open source projects: Cgmuscle is an open source muscle system for Maya Articles, essays: The Case for Doing a Project by the Book, rather than by cutting corners. Hardware: How many of these would you like to have to render your feature film? Some propietary softwares: Toonboom should really know how to make a storyboard system, so it is worth having a look at it. The ContentCube is a comprehensive and scalable MAM solution that is feature-rich but also affordable and modular. It allows entire media libraries to be organized, archived and reused. Each video and image asset can be easily retrieved and transcoded into a variety of formats allowing the use of these assets without specialized software or hardware. Digital Storage...