Lighting pipeline choices

Lighting pipeline choices

If we have to start from before anim is locked down, we should be able to work in seperate files to enable a flexible pipelinish workflow. I've looked at the following:

1- linking anim scenes into lighting/comp scenes via background scenes:

-pros:

• immune to addtions/changes in anims.
• clean (one link)
• allows full flexibility of animators while lighters are working.

-cons:

• you get everything in the scene linked
• animators can mess up lighters
• lighters can't do anything to non-animated assets, except turn layers on or off.
• doesn't handle cameras.

2- linking animated assets into light scenes as groups.

-pros:

• immune to most changes in anim, provided new dependencies are added to the group.
• clean: one link per group
• flexible: allows linking different sets of animated 'stuff' as different groups.
• lighters can change layers for animated stuff, and have full control over non animated assets.

-cons:

• blender has a showstopper bug where the proxy animation doesn't come through in the link
• non animated stuff/rest of scene has to be rebuilt by hand/ some other method.
• again, doesn't handle cameras.
• animators need to add new objects involved in the animation into the group by hand.