Building a pipeline for serial animation
How we structure dailies, naming, and handoffs so episodic teams stay fast without sacrificing quality.
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Journal
Blog
Notes from our floor — pipelines, craft, and client collaboration. New writing drops here as we ship.
Color scripts that survive production
From first mood board to final grade — keeping a single color spine when departments split across time zones.
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Sound-first storyboarding
Why we sometimes cut animatics before boards are clean — and how tempo decisions ripple back upstream.
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Handoff checklist for remote ink & paint
Line weight, cap joins, and exposure sheets — the small rules that keep cleanup consistent across vendors.
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Client review without meeting fatigue
Frame.io, annotated PDFs, or bespoke portals — picking a lane and sticking to it so feedback stays actionable.
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From layout keys to final comp
Depth splits, holdouts, and multi-plane cheats we use when schedules demand 2D hero shots with 3D camera language.
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