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- 1. Feature Animation Visual Effects As A Job Shop @
- 2. Input: Scripts, Storyboards, and Sound
- 4. Process Overview Rough Layout Character Animation Final Layout Modeling Rigging Pipeline Front End Editorial Approved Concept Art Editorial Lighting Final Render Cloth & Hair FX (Particles, Smoke, Etc) Texturing Look Dev Back End
- 5. Objectives Reduce Flow Time Low Variability Maintain Quality
- 6. Yikes… Rough Layout Character Animation Final Layout Modeling Rigging Pipeline Front End Editorial Approved Concept Art Editorial Lighting Final Render Cloth & Hair FX (Particles, Smoke, Etc) Texturing Look Dev Back End
- 8. Animator’s Working View • Fast • Manipulate in real-time
- 9. • Smooth • Check contact points • Check motion blur • See details • Check quality of conversion to lighting format Animator (and Director) Quality Check Render
- 10. d Zooming In: The Animation Workflow Animator Works with Scene Publishing Animator Review Director Review QC Render (Video File) Good? No Yes Good? YesNo ANIMATION
- 11. Two Publish Problems: Render “Death” and Bad Output Animator Works with Scene Publishing Animator Review Director Review QC Render (Video File) Good? No Yes Good? YesNo Death: • Often from new assets (rigs, props) that had never been published • Scenes that had a technical glitch • Required Pipeline TD intervention and can take days to track down • Relatively rare Bad Output: • Often result of changes to props (removed or renamed props) between publishes • Generally easy to fix • Very common
- 12. Problem: The Render Recipe was Cumulative
- 13. d Repetition Due to Variation in Publishing Output Animator Works with Scene Publishing Animator Review Director Review QC Render (Video File) Good? No Yes Good? YesNo ANIMATION
- 14. New Process Variability Publishing Output Quality Low Original Process Variability Specification Width First Render Second Render Final Render
- 15. The Fix: A Recipe Syncing Pre-Process PublishingPublished Scene File Publish Pre- process Existing Recipe Check and update based on scene contents
- 16. New Process Variability New Publishing Variability Specification Width
- 17. Result Reduced repetitions of render cycle Reduced overall process time Cut down on overtime (Saturday) work
- 18. Takeaways • There are workflows inside of large processes • Quality / bottleneck issues within workflows impact overall quality and flow time • Get employees on the front line involved to unpack workflows within processes
Notas del editor
- We took inputs in the form of scripts, storyboards, and ideas from the director
- And we ouput a set of moving images. Each “set” is a “shot”
- The problems: It’s messy. There’s tension between time and quality. Huge variety in the complexity of each job that further complicates analysis
- HTR Saturday Work Story