Saturday, 2 November 2013

TaskMan - Job Management for Studio

It has been awhile since the last time I update my animation blog here so today I got some update and new things to share.

I'm currently working as Technical Animator / Artist in MNC Animation Jakarta responsible for developing pipeline software following my manager guideline, tools for the artists (animator, modeler, compositor, and VFX), and as supporting artist where needed (mostly in render).

The first day I arrived in MNC the Head Producer told me that he require a tools (preferably online) to monitor work progress both in-source and out-source. This tools will work as tool to help him make a decision on every project.

Answering to his challenge, I utilize PHP, MySQL, Javascript, and chrome HTML 5 to create a simple job tracking website. The TaskMan.

Login page of the Task Manager

I tried to create this website to ease out the headache of tracking an asset or job manually during the production. Therefore, I've made the layout simple and put some small feature inside it.

The first one is the dashboard. Here everybody can see the status of all the project they currently working at while tracking a job they have been assigned to. Notice the big percentage on the center right side, its the amount of job percentage that has been assigned to you so as long as it show 100%, you are safe.

Dashboard of the TaskMan
The following is My Task page where you can see all the job that has been assigned to you, upload an image, or simply put a notes and quick notes in it to be seen by other department (render, asset, or coordinator).

My Task
Here is the heart of the entire site, The Task manager. In this page, you can manipulate each ticket such as the assigned artist, bid hour, deadline, supervisor, notes, etc while the site will assist you on every change you make.
Task Manager
The next one is the overseer page. This page is reserved for an account with clearance A and B (Team lead or supervisor). Here, the supervisor can check all job supervised by them and decide whether to approve it or give a revise back to the assigned artist.

Overseer
The last one is the episode registration page. Aside the time consuming manual task entry, here I've designed the page to read a .ecf an MNC in house file containing each episode information file (sequence, shot, frame range, etc) and input it to the TaskMan database automatically.

Register Episode

These are all the feature I've made to answer our Producer first challenge to avoid clutter in our studio production and to prepare ourselves when working with outsource studio. I really hope in the near future I can develop the website to be capable of handling more complex pipeline and integrate it to our production software.

I'm currently preparing another identical website to be used as trial so you can come and experience the website directly.

Thank you for reading and hope you have a nice day.

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