NEXT-GEN Nescot Year 2 - Synoptic Project pipeline

During the last few weeks of Year 2 we were tasked with creating pipelines for the three industries, videogame development, Vfx and 3D animation. I did this by, firstly, creating a list of activities/ steps that are important to the industries, then I colour coded each part to resemble a section of each flowchart (eg: pre-production, production, and post-production).

For my first flowchart I decided to base the Animation industry pipeline on the way my synoptic project team decided to enact on our synoptic project. This meant that it would first start with the creation of a story or series of events set to take place, then it would branch out and lead to character designs and storyboards before carrying onto the next section. Each section was interconnected and arrows were placed to show a steady path of movement and to show what section interconnected with eachother.

For my second set of flowcharts, I decided to segment different flowcharts for each section of production. While this worked well it was time consuming and I later decided to revert towards the older style for the Vfx flowchart. The first flowchart made out of the videogame section was the pre-production phase, starting with the concept idea and ending with prototype models and animatics. I also decided to colour co-ordinate around what function the steps had.

The seccond phase (production) was set up similarly to the previous flowchart with function coloured instead of section. This flowchart began with modeling and ended with the begining/hosting of the application/game (earlier version of the final product).

The Third phase (post-production) showed the setup of servers and initial testing before then moving onto the final product and maintinace of the game. Again, this was set up similarly to the previous two flowcharts.

For my final flowchart, I decided to go back to the original design of my flowcharts and segmented the flowchart by section, this worked well because it lowered the amount of time spent and allowed me to simplify the flowchart more easily. On the other hand, this flowchart is much more clustered than others and could be improved upon by increasing the space between each step.

I believe I did well on this task due to the number of tasks already set, time left to complete it and also due to the setup of each flowchart. However, that being said it is hard to recognise where the flowcharts initially start due to my personal error of forgeting to correctly label the start and end with respective circular symbols.