3D Animation Pipeline: Making an Animated Movie (#6) Video Lecture | A Guide to Making an Animated Movie - Professional Skills

hey guys in this video I wanted to talk
to you about the 3d pipeline now every
studio has its own pipeline and most
users have their own preferences of how
they structure their folder but this is
what I found to be very very clean and
organized way to keep track of your
animated short this is kind of designed
for a one-man project or maybe a few
people it's not designed for like a
studio pipeline
I love Studios have their own software
plugins they use for their pipeline like
open pipeline or sometimes they write
their own software so this structure
that I'm going to cover today is good
for when you want to make your own film
this is good for people who never made
an animated short because they'll help
them stay clear of some common issues
that they come up when you don't have
your project structured right so let's
start well the first thing you do you
start with your storyboard we already
covered that in in previous videos and
that could be like in a separate
store-bought folder you should have a
research folder I have one right here
where is that over there for when you
listen where you put all your concept
are your research images that you find
online that you want to use as some kind
of reference to your textures or your
characters any kind of research you do
prior to the actual making I didn't do a
lot of research I only have a Cuban and
evolve for my characters but for most
people a lot of research is recommended
when you go to 3d this is where the
pipeline is really really starts to be
important we start with a model in your
3d folder you will have a models folder
where you keep all your model of the
environment the cube the ball so let's
open one of them it's already open this
is just your regular 3d mesh with no
rigging on it just your basic model then
when you start to rig them your models
you reference that in a new scene and
save it in a rigging folder so this is
the model folder
the next one is the rigging folder you
create a folder separate for each of the
characters again let's open the cube rig
so that scene is me referencing the
model and building the rig on top of it
so as you can see it's not a very
complicated rig but it it works can even
blink once you finish rigging you move
into animating your shot that would be
done in a shots folder there you go in
the shots folder you'll have one folder
for animation one folder for lighting
because after you finish your animation
you're going to actually reference the
enemy the entire animation scene into a
lighting scene so when you first start
your animation scene you reference your
rigs so as you can see I have my scene
here
and I have my cube referenced to that
scene and my environment model also
referenced so I don't have any actual
object in that scene it's all being
referenced so we have a model being
referenced into a rig and then that
really being referenced into an
animation scene and then when we start
lighting which I haven't started yet I'm
going to take this entire file this
animation project and reference it into
a new one and save it in the lighting
folder over here which is empty right
now and then from from your lighting
from your lighting projects you just do
the render you start rendering so that's
on the 3d side of things
editing wise I always start with an
animatic then on top of the animatic I
would start building my previous then
slowly replacing the previous with the
finished animation and then eventually
the the render files so you see this is
my animatic I've covered how to make an
animatic in another video you can check
it out later so you have all your shots
you have your timing your frames and
then when you get into the previous
stage which is where I am right now you
start replacing those shots with your
previous shots as you can see I've done
over here so this is a previous shot you
see it's like it's the animation is
blocked it's not it's not final at all
but it gives you the feeling once you
replace all of these shots with your
play blast from Maya you start animating
each one of those shots completely and
then you replace it again
and then you're going to have a final
animated previous after that you're
going to start lighting and rendering
and then you're going to replace those
shots again the previous shots with the
lighting shot I like to change the name
of the files too right now before I the
file used to be called animatic one zero
zero one but then when I started
replacing and building my previous eye
changes to previous and then later on I
would call it edit which is the final
edit so that's that's kind of the my
pipeline that I work with I would also
have under edit under the folder that
contains all my animatic previous
whatever I would also have a sounds
folder which I can divide into like
sound effects dialogue maybe music if
you have some I'm going to include in
the website a demo folder that I created
with all this all this structure laid
out in a very clean and easy way to read
so you can actually download a demo
folder that I'm going to upload to the
site and use it as reference for your
project as usual if you have any
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