Animation workflow, pipeline, asset management & production control.

These are some interesting things I have found in the book Producing Animation . Producer´s Reference: Animation Industry Directory www.animag.com www.mpsc839.org www.hollyvision.com www.producers.masterguide.com Books that seem relevant for my research (with amazon link): 3D Lighting: History, Concepts & Technique Arnold Gallardo The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation by Kit Laybourne and John Canemaker Animation Magic by Don Hahn Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney by Russell Merritt , J. B. Kaufman Of Mice and Magic by Leonard Maltin Animated Cartoons by Edwin George Lutz * A Reader in Animation Studies by Jayne Pilling , Society of Animation Studies Before Mickey by Donald Crafton American Animated Films : The Silent Era, 1897-1929 by Denis Gifford The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston , Frank Thomas British Animated Films, 1895-1985: A Fil...

This is a (83 minutes long) video of Team Orange conference talking about the making of Elephants Dream . (From their web): "In it we mention a few things, including our version of what the story is about, and also some of the easter eggs and tributes that we hid inside, so if you’re interested, go and check it out!" This is a very brief resume, as I go along it: 2:00 It was setup up with an unexperienced six persons team in some sleepless 7 months. They spent 1 week to set up a teaser, and then 2 or 3 months to set up everything. 15:30 Crappymatic - from the first script 17:00 2nd animatic, more organized 18:00 Remove 90% of the dialogs and 30% of the scenes and start final animatic: unfinished but very similar to the final movie 33:19 rendering in OpenEXR and jpg to avoid huge file transfers 34:40 Scene and render file transfer between Amsterdam animation studio and USA render farm was done using rsync , over a ADSL line! (rsync seems quite UNIX-centric, maybe unison is be...

Juan Carlos sent me two links about "Making a space scene the Battlestar Galactica Way using Lightwave3D, Digital Fusion and the benefits of OpenEXR Render Buffer Image Saving with exrTrader" One of the links is about " lighting, scene break out with Lightwave" and the other link is about " compositing with Fusion", both by Kelly "Kat" Myers, the Visual FX consultant for Battlestar Galactica Seasons II and III show. Specially interesting in my opinion is the information about using the OpenEXR image format, Kelly seems very happy with it!

I met Gorazd in a course. He is the director of a Slovenia-based animation production company. He was very happy with Missing Link , a software that he finds very useful for production control, that they use for their productions, which span along different time zones around the globe. Achim corrected the wrong link I had been given, so we now have a new piece of software to check out. Take this introduction as an appetizer (from their web): "The web-based software Production Kit is an innovative solution designed for a better workflow and an efficient project management, especially when dealing with company wide or distributed content creation (...) The software is setting the organizational framework in which any user-defined process (in consecutive production steps) can be displayed." Another thing that called my attention was thos, on the history section: " Thanks to the vocational experiences of the founders and their co-workers, who have collected their knowled...