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