Animation workflow, pipeline, asset management & production control.

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Talk Management System keeps a very interesting blog on Project Management for the Media and Entertainment industry. Among many other articles, there is a really impressive (though somewhat otdated) "list of Softwares for Media & Entertainment for the project management industry":  http://www.talkmgt.com/blog/2009/05/05/softwares-for-media-entertainment/ http://talkmgmt.com/blog

Wrike Wrike is an online project management platform for making work fast, easy and efficient in co-located and distributed teams.  It has just added a Free account "Perfect for small teams, student projects and solopreneurs: Key features for up to 5 power users and unlimited collaborators." You can upgrade to premium for aditional features such as: Gantt Charts, time-tracking, workload view, reports... http://www.wrike.com

Because of my job, I am doing new research on 2D pipelines, however it seems hard to find detailed articles. Here you can see how the animated TV series ‘Fishtronaut’ was produced simultaneously with a stereo 3D movie, with workflows based on a Toon Boom pipeline. http://www.digitalmedia.com.au/Animation/toon-boom-harmony-tvpinguim-fishtronaut-tv-cinema

CGmonks has launched a kickstarter campaign to fund the development to update the Morpheus Rig for Maya. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cgmonks/morpheus-rig-v20 If funded they'll begin development immediately.

This is a really detailed post by Cameron Fielding, analyzing very detailedly his own personal workflow as a 3D animator on a single shot, from initial analysis to final refine. http://fliponline.blogspot.com.es/2008/02/turok-animation-workflow.html It´s essential to understand the operator needs in order to serve them in a flexible way. I don´t recommend anyone to go the other way around...

Álvaro let us know about these two pages: "This pages are a real gold mine: Loads of miscellaneous Disney´s technical documents, explanations, tips... http://www.disneyanimation.com/library/list.html ...and open source software: http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/opensource.html Enjoy!" Thanks for sharing, Álvaro!

This blogs was written by a group of finnish students working on an ambitious 3D animation project that was finally abandoned, unfortunately. However,  step by step  they shared what they were learning about doing a team 3D production, so it is loaded with information about other blogs, video tutorials, conferences, tips... http://3danimationproject.wordpress.com