Free Animation Project Management

[softdistortion]

Once it's in a beta format our team would be happy to put it to a test. ..we may be able to give some input on practical items and usability for a team like ours. PM me if you like ;)

[maronson]

The Pygmalion Computer Graphics Project could use software to help coordinate multiple pipelines and give instant feedback about status. It could indicate people waiting for input, material waiting for assignment, and in our case the software to be used in each step and its owner.

Anyone enrolled in the project could look at status and volunteer (or ask to be reassigned) to step into a critical path (as long as they have the appropriate software). Also in our case we have an absolute deadline so it would be nice to indicate how long a task took and time estimates for tasks not yet started.

[silver6161]

Thank you for the interest.

I will contact you directly and give you the link to the website, to take a quick look.

Others, please feel free to join.

thanks

[donShole]

Hi silver6161, you sould also consider how to manage assets flowing between different software toolkits - in our case Lightwave, Maya, max(i think) and Motionbuilder to name a few.

[silver6161]

Hello donSole,

as the system will be web-based we will not actually store assets.

As a shot producer you will be concerned about the data format flowing
in and out of a specific subtask of a scene specification ( Maya -> Motionbuilder in Modelling and Animation )
and therefore specify data format and application.

Is there any important information about data formats that you think should be at a higher point in the project hierarchy than the shot breakdown?

Thank you for your input
silver61

[softdistortion]

Hey silver, I tried a few times, but your Wicki pass is not working for me :shrug:

[maronson]

I was able to get in as guest today and I looked at what you have. Is the idea I'm supposed to organize the forms to the format that I would find useful? Why are you limiting this to postproduction? I know I'm going to have a real "interesting" time when I'm close to deadline and I'm wondering where in the web are those missing 2500 rendered frames that I need right now. So that will be useful. But even during production I have to keep track of assignments and progress. Pre-production is simultaneous with production in a volunteer project because it is hard to attract volunteers when all you have is a dream. Recruting is a big issue when you have a fixed deadline.

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