MoCap for Artists

3 Pipeline

Various types of information that contribute to a project move through a production pipeline. The information changes its form while moving from one step to the next (e.g., a script turns into a storyboard; marker data into skeletal data). In a large production environment, teams of specialists are involved in the production. Each team is responsible for a section of the pipeline. In a small production environment, a single individual or a small number of crew members are in charge of the entire pipeline. No matter what size a production environment is, it is crucial to have a well-designed and well-tested pipeline that projects move through smoothly.

A project pipeline starts with preproduction and ends with post-production. Appendix ...