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Pipeline Series Agenda: subject to ongoing development

Essential Pipeline Concepts

Summarized: Seven Point Functional Description of Visual Effects Pipelines
  1. #0018 Understanding Pipelines
  2. #0019 The Pipeline -Form Follows Function
  3. #0020 The Technology is Not the Pipeline
  4. #0022 Workflows vs Pipelines
  5. #0023 CG pipelines defined
  6. #0026 Better Pipelines with Pros
  7. #0031 The Fourth Dimension of CG Pipelines
  8. #0034 Seven Point Functional Description of Visual Effects Pipelines
Production Pipelines
  1.  Design
    1. #0030 The Best CG Production Pipeline
    2. #0035 Production Pipeline Design: Functional Mission
    3. #0036 Company Culture Effects Pipeline Design
    4. Resource Assessment 
      1. Leadership 
      2. Methods and Technology
      3. Personnel
    5. Structuring work
  2. Implementation
  3. Managing the production pipeline
    1. Give Your Pipeline an Energy Boost
    2. On the fly : pipeline 911
Material pipelines  
Cover your data and assets
  1. Design Issues
  2. Essential Material Handling Methods
  3. Methods Based Asset Management
  4. Software Based Asset Management
  5. Outsourcing Asset Management?
  6. Data Protection and Preservation
  7. Design and Implementation
The Approval pipeline 
The job lives or dies with direction and approval
  1. Approval Pipeline Options
  2. Engaging Clients
  3. Facilitating Management
  4. Empowering users
  5. Technology Options
  6. Design and Implementation