Animation workflow, pipeline, asset management & production control.

I have just received this email from Don Parker of Shotgun Software: We’re excited to announce that we’re strapping a rocket to our backs and will be nearly tripling the size of our engineering team in an effort to build more tools for you, faster. How? We’ve signed a definitive agreement to join Autodesk, which is going to be making a massive, long-term investment in the vision we share with you for the future. You can get the full scoop on our website, but I want to give you the key points up front. First, Shotgun is not going away. We will continue to operate under the Shotgun brand with the same team and same style. Our website, forums, support site and team all stay in place. Second, we’re not going to slow down. We are scaling immediately to 2X our current team size and 3X development resources -- to go faster. Third, I’ll keep working for you as hard as I can as the leader of our larger team. The Shotgun crew you know and love are right here with me, and we’ll be joined by...

" Project Gooseberry is the code name for Blender Foundation's 5th Open Movie project, to produce a feature animation film using Open Source software " This is the Project Pitch:  http://gooseberry.blender.org/wp-content/themes/gooseberry/ You can also have a look at this interview with the director . They have two days left to reach the first 3000 supporters, and the reward is " to have full access to the whole production, while it develops "so why don´t you jump in and have a look?

David just shared this  white paper  in Linkedin,  enjoy! http://www.southpawtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/tactic_async_whitepaper_2014.pdf

Pablo just wrote about this interesting website about workflows and digital cinema equipment  http://www.wolfcrow.com .  In Pablo´s own words: "there are plenty of articles written with huge reasonableness, and away from the "spec whore" mentality found in the majority of webs". Readers of this blog might like to have a look at "VFX and CGI Workflows" ( http://wolfcrow.com/blog/vfx-and-cgi-workflows ). Have a look at the "About" section too, where you will find that the author, Sareesh Sudhakaran, lives in Mumbai, India, and that " Wolfcrow (or wolfkrow) is workflow spelled backwards. Yikes! "

Jeffrey Dates posted this recently in a newsgroups and h e kindly allowed me to repost it in this blog, you can check more stuff at his personal site  www.kungfukoi.com " So a short time ago, I was asked to give a 'boot camp' for some freshmen  and sophomore producers on what exactly happens during CG production.  Just  a basic, basic oversimplification of CG production with visuals. It went over really well, and sort of went viral around our studio. I just wanted to share with you guys. I hope you get a kick out of it also. http://kungfukoi.com/files/onset/CG_101.pdf Cheers, Jeff."

I just received a promotional email from Shotgun offering a 10% discount in this course , please let us know how the course went, if you attend. We've teamed up with the folks over at fxphd to offer a special course called  "Building a Modern Pipeline with Shotgun" . The class will cover topics like: Getting Shotgun setup at your studio Building a project, then scheduling tasks and tracking their progress Setting up a solid review pipeline Getting Toolkit setup and building your own apps Special talks featuring tips & tricks from real studios using Shotgun  Those taking the class will receive a special extended Shotgun trial for use during the class. Sign up today  using promo code "shotgun" and fxphd will graciously offer 10% off your fxphd membership. TM and copyright © 2013 Shotgun Software Inc.

One of the most relevant features in this version is that it now connects to your Google Drive to, for instance, create the folder structure for you, and it even offers a script for this called Buckshot v3.3 builder, which will be available for public use to assist you in building new projects for one week (until Mon14th of October 12pm PST) and after that you will have to wait for two months After almost 1 year of hard work to reach v3.3, Marcus is not going to make any more updates. It´s your turn: " Now go make something cool! " What does all this mean? Well, you better hurry up and get your own Buckshot v3.3 project now: http://links.vfx2.com/Buckshot-Build-v3 As Marcus says: " Make your life easier, and learn to use Google apps to manage your projects just like the big boys do. Here's my step-by-step guide on how you can set up your own professional project in just 12 mins. ". For more information, I´d suggest you to see this video  http://youtu.be/...