Here you will find out everything about the technical aspects of making a CGI short film.

It is also intended as a reference page for participating artists.

Standards:

File Naming Conventions

Directory Structure

Modeling

Rigging / Skinning

Texturing / Shading

Layout / Set Dressing

Animating

Lighting / Compositing

Pipeline and Workflow:

The Temporal Hierarchy of Cinema

3D Pipeline for an animated short film

Visual Development for an animated short film

Pre-production for an animated short film

Production for an animated short film

Post-Production for an animated short film

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revised 7/12/2006