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Production Schedules and Budgets

Chris — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:52:55 +0000

The animation industry is extremely competitive. An insurmountable amount of work goes into formulating schedules and budgets, negotiations with clients, setting up a pipeline, equipment, crewing up departments (finding the talent), … and finally getting a project green lit.

By the time you get to the point where your running/opening your own animation studio, you’ve probably [...]

Animation Production Pipeline

Chris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:13:05 +0000

Once a project is green lit and is slated for production, the studio which is awarded the job has to figure out how they will actually get it done.

Most of this information is presented at the bidding stage in terms of a schedule and budget – how many people are needed for each department [...]

Deadlines For Animation Production

Chris — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:34:40 +0000

The dreaded “D” word…just the word deadline can sound really daunting if you’ve never worked with them – as in, if you don’t cross the finish line in time, your dead – or fired!

Well not exactly.

As a series animator working in production, I suppose that would be true if you were consistently delivering your scenes/shots [...]