If you want to make an animated film you’ll need to organize your animation team. Think of the Animation Department as two equal teams: Operations and Production. Operations runs the business administration of the project while Production handles the creative end.

Here’s an outline breaking down these two teams into more detail.

• Animation Operations
  • Production office 
  • Human Resources
  • Scheduling
  • Traffic
  • Tracking
  • Intake
  • Delivery
  • Budget
  • Legal
• Animation Production
  • Animation Coordinators/Managers
  • Performance Capture Laboratory
  • Character Animation Workshop
  • Background Studio
  • Design Team
  • SFX Team
  • Specialty Animation
  • Composite
  • Editorial

This outline was taken from an in-person talk entitled Minnow Mountain: Pipelines by studio President Steph Swope and CEO Craig Staggs.

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