As a group I feel that we had really progressed in our level of maturity. However talented one may be at the "particular aspects" of 3D animation, it generally is the case that organising the way in which we do "the particulars" can yield a greater number of man hours in which we can improve our product. Although we all still could improve as artists, as young proffessionals we had started thinking of ways in which we could do things more efficiently. Our first step was to consider using referencing in order for all members to be working all of the time. We found that this greatly increased the productivity of our pipeline and also the flexibility in which we can alter things.
However, it became apparent that even this may not be optimized yet. Now that things were getting more and more complicated with more files going back and forth between animators, riggers, trackers and moddler, we noticed another place for improvement: file sharing.
Given that we are all working on the same project with the same files, would it not be a great idea to be able to share some virtual space where we could access? Greg first proposed the idea to Ollie and then myself. After going through all of the implications that may arise we were delighted to have the addition of dropbox into our workflow.
Basically dropbox is an online storage space that takes a designated folder and memory space on your workstation. When you are connected to the internet, a total of 50GB is synced with the dropbox account. This is allowed across any number of machines.
As a group we were all able to have a work folder each- one for rigging, modelling, animating etc under each student. This meant that we were all able to access everyones work and see the collective progress that was being made. For example I would be able to see playblasts from animation and test renders as they were being done! This was a fantastic idea and with this use of skype, we were able to communicate ideas with great precision and speed.
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